senary
nounEtymology From the Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of senarius.
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Arithmetic The numeral system which uses six as the base.
senary
adj/ˈsiːnəɹi/
Etymology From the Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of senarius.
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Of sixth rank or order.
- In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).2001, Manish K. Gupta, David G. Glynn, and T. Aaron Gulliver, On Senary Simplex Codes, in Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: proceedings of 14th International Symposium, Serdar Boztaş, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112
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Arithmetic Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
- The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.