arithmetical sign

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• Sign — Any abnormality that indicates a disease process, such as a change in appearance, sensation, or function, that is observed by a physician when evaluating a patient. * * * 1. Any abnormality indicative of disease, discoverable on examination of… …   Medical dictionary

• plus — 1570s, the oral rendering of the arithmetical sign +, from L. plus more (comparative of multus much ), altered by influence of minus from *pleos, from PIE *ple full (see POLY (Cf. poly )). Placed after a whole number to indicate and a little more …   Etymology dictionary

• plus — is used primarily as the oral equivalent of the arithmetical sign + (Three plus four is seven). In the 20c it went from strength to strength as a quasi preposition with the meaning ‘with the addition of, and also’ (e.g. • A cup of Epp s cocoa and …   Modern English usage

• Bernoulli number — In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers Bn are a sequence of rational numbers with deep connections to number theory. They are closely related to the values of the Riemann zeta function at negative integers. There are several conventions for… …   Wikipedia

• Principia Mathematica — For Isaac Newton s book containing basic laws of physics, see Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The title page of the shortened version of the Principia Mathematica to *56. The Principia Mathematica is a three volume work on the… …   Wikipedia

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• Gödel's incompleteness theorems — In mathematical logic, Gödel s incompleteness theorems, proved by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are two theorems stating inherent limitations of all but the most trivial formal systems for arithmetic of mathematical interest. The theorems are of… …   Wikipedia

• Ordinal arithmetic — In the mathematical field of set theory, ordinal arithmetic describes the three usual operations on ordinal numbers: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. Each can be defined in essentially two different ways: either by constructing an… …   Wikipedia

• NUMBERS, TYPICAL AND IMPORTANT — Biblical numbers are primarily based on the decimal system, which is of Hamito Egyptian origin. The sexagesimal system, however, which ultimately derives from Sumerian usage, also plays an important role in Scripture, and since 60 is divisible by …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Digamma — This article is about the Greek letter. For the mathematical function, see digamma function. Greek alphabet …   Wikipedia