Category talk:Positional numeral systems

message: I have addressed certain issues by creating the article Non-standard positional numeral systems, and making related changes to Unary numeral system, Golden ratio base, Quater-imaginary base, Positional notation, Base (mathematics), and :Category:Positional numeral systems. I suggest further discussion of these issues takes place at talk:Non-standard positional numeral systems.--Niels Ø 14:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-standard positional numeral systems

message: When I created this category, the idea was to list pos.num.systs by base. This idea has repeatedly been violated by other editors, perhaps because the category has a misleading name. My purpose creating the category was to avoid accumulation of "see also" links to other bases at the bottom of each article.
There seems to be two issues involved: One is the sort order of the category (where my intention with this category was to sort by base), the other is that some articles deal have a specific mathematical base as their subject, others have the number notation used in a certain culture as their subject (where my intention was to categorize the articles with a base as their subject).
What to do?
One could create a new subcategory "Positional numeral systems by base", leaving this main category for the culturally inclined articles (alphabetically sorted). But again, the fact that "Rod numerals" belongs in the main category and not in the "by base" sub category would not me absolutely clear. Or one might change the "by base" list from a category into a list.
Ideas? Views?--Noe (talk) 13:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, no answers for quite some time. I still think there is a problem to be solved, but I'm not sure how. The category mechanism in wikipedia is not too good if we want the list sorted under headings like "2", "3", ..., "10", etc. Perhaps we should let the category be sorted by default (Binary under "B" etc.), and instead make a List of positional numeral systems withe a section By base with the desired subheadings, and where the subsection "10" could include both Decimal and Rod numerals. And another section By culture, e.g. with subheadings like "Asia", "Europe" etc. Would that be appropriate?--Noe (talk) 14:03, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename this category? 

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thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletions]]

message: This category page used to list the articles ordered by base, but user:Meco has removed all the sort tags so that is no longer the case. Either we need to put them back, or we need to create such a list (or table) somewhere - which probably is a better idea. It could include the names of systems that are not notable enough to have an article of their own; they could be redirected to such a list. (Several such articles were deleted or changed to redirects by User:sligocki some time ago.)
So I will soon create such a table as a new section in the article Positional notation - if not someone else beats me to it or talks me out of it by suggesting a better solution.--Nø (talk) 10:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I propose a navigational template which could then go on the bottom of all relevant pages and also on the category page. __meco (talk) 12:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That might be a good idea, but I'm not sure. There is a :Template:Numeral systems (appearing top right in the relevant articles) that has a selection of these links in it, but it would be too cluttered having them all, so a separate template at the bottom would make sense. However, you can't redirect the names of less notable numeral systems to a template. Ideally, it should be a table connecting bases (like "2") and names ("binary") - it might be too much to include that on every page involved. (Of course, the previous solution with the sort tags did not provide such a connection.) Perhaps a template with an "expand/hide" button would be good; I don't know how to make those. (Might we even add such a button to the existing template instead?)--Nø (talk) 13:28, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a tip on creating a template is to find a navigational template in some unrelated article and simply change the links in it, keeping the code. __meco (talk) 17:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of positional systems by base 

message: I've redirected all the articles to List of numeral systems, save the following:
* Unary numeral system (1)
* Binary number (2)
* Ternary numeral system (3)
* Quaternary numeral system (4)
* Quinary (5)
* Senary (6)
* Octal (8)
* Decimal (10)
* Duodecimal (12)
* Hexadecimal (16)
* Vigesimal (20)
* Sexagesimal (60)
All of these are clearly notable, except 4 and 6, which I'm not sure about. They are near the border between notability and non-notability, I think. Double sharp (talk) 16:16, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on the above concerns over notability 

message: Can somebody please divide the rows of the multiplication tables into two and add the corresponding decimal numbers? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:25, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This would be pointless – anybody having IQ ≥ 100 can superimpose (in mind, or otherwise) the decimal multiplication table up to 12 × 12 with the given one. Or is 12 not enough? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:18, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Currently the ternary numeral system has a table showing both binary and ternary numbers for up to the decimal 27, as well as powers up to the ninth and a Fractions table. I propose for the positional systems in this category to add decimal numbers in multiplication tables, and also add the exponential and fractionary ones. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:59, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add decimal numbers in multiplication tables 

message: Hi, could you create a ternary clock similar to the binary one so that it can be added to the respective page?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Binary_clock.svg --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:07, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ternary clock