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ERIC Number: EJ855792
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Nov
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0746-8342
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Leftist Numbers
Rich, Andrew
College Mathematics Journal, v39 n5 p330-336 Nov 2008
The leftist number system consists of numbers with decimal digits arranged in strings to the left, instead of to the right. This system fails to be a field only because it contains zerodivisors. The same construction with prime base yields the p-adic numbers.
Descriptors: Number Systems, Mathematics, Number Concepts
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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