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 | | Our traditional radix number systems might be called "geometric" because the denominations of successive "places" (columns) form a geometric series, e.g., 1, 10, 100,... |
 | | Another interesting type of number system is the "factorial system", where the denominations are 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, etc, and the nth digit is in the range from 0 to n. |
 | | I suppose we could simply state that the "cannonical form" of any given number is the representation with the fewest number of digits, or with the smallest sum of digits. |
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