Euclid and Normal Forms

Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang

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Abstract

Romans used letters to denote natural numbers. Language of modern computers utilizes binary representation. Here we describe different ways to represent natural numbers, ending the chapter with an important theorem about prime numbers, already known to Euclid (300 BC).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputational Music Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages85-87
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Publication series

NameComputational Music Science
ISSN (Print)1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)1868-0313

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© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

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