radix

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Radical comes from the Latin word "radix" meaning "root".

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  1. noun Biology A root or point of origin.
  2. noun Mathematics The base of a system of numbers, such as 2 in the binary system and 10 in the decimal system.

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  • The radix, in baud , has thus the second person thou in ke ; and the objective inflection, iz-ze, means a person in a general sense. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Radical comes from the Latin word "radix" meaning "root". —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Hexadecimal (hex) is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. —  nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog
  • With 4 radix-4 FFT processors, we employ 16 parallel channels to lower down the operation clock to 132 MHz with the input data of 538 MHz. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A proposed radix - and word-length-independent standard for floating-point arithmetic A Proposed Radix - and Word-length-independent Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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  1. Latin rādīx, root; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin radix (radic-), a root, = Greek ῤάδιξ, a branch, rod. Hence ult. English race and radish (doublets of radix), radical, radicel, radicle, radicule, radicate, eradicate, aracc, etc.
 

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/ˈreɪdɪks/
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