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Number Systems with Different Kinds of Numbers

In mathematics, the phrase number system refers to any collection of objects that has the following properties:

Roughly speaking, any collection of objects that satisfies these properties is, by definition, a number system.

Note: this is only a rough statement. If you wanted to say things more accurately, you'd have to take into account the fact that

However, the rough statement is enough for our purposes.

Examples of Number Systems

The most common number systems are the following:
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