Notation

Notation is the naming of objects by holding (qualitative and quantitative representation ) of things and movement patterns in written form agreed with symbolic characters.

The absence of a notation makes it sometimes impossible to convey a sequence of actions or a more complicated context briefly and clearly, or to capture. "Sender" and " receiver " help yourself conveniently the same notation.

Simple examples

  • Notation (music), in music, the recording of a musical facts by notes
  • A, T, G, C, - is the notation for the genetic code
  • The international standard notation for the date and time (ISO 8601) is YYYY -MM -DD and hh: mm: ss ( for example, 1995-02-04 23:59:59 ) ( date format)
  • Q groups in radio communications (Q key)

Each with symbols defined, coded guide to action is a notation in the broader sense. Locations of such kind can be found in many subject areas.

  • No general notation there, if could not be agreed on an economic representation in the relevant field to describe the respective relationships.

Examples include sailor's knots - there is no universal code system ( = notation), with which one can describe the beating of all possible nodes.

Scientific notation

  • Mathematical notation, the rules for spelling and order of evaluation of math expressions.
  • Scientific notation for numerical representation
  • You may order the operation signs and the operands in different ways: Infix notation, as in school mathematics (example: 3 2 )
  • Polish notation or prefix notation (for example, , 3, 2)
  • Reverse Polish notation or postfix notation, UPN abbreviated (example: 3, 2, )

Technical systems

In computer science and related areas of information management or process management modeling languages ​​allow software developers, system analysts and system architects, the requirements for an organizational system or a software system and to determine its internal structures and processes at a higher level. These languages ​​attempt a specification for management, users and other stakeholders through diagrammatic representation to make possible course using standardized notations.

Documentation system

  • Notation ( documentation ), a shortcut for specifying a descriptor in a system of concepts
  • Bibliographic Notation of magazines
  • Classification, for scientific work

Notation in culture, play and sport

  • Aresti symbols for aerobatics
  • Figure jumping skydiving ( Formation jump)
  • Dance notation for the description of dances
  • Chess notation, for recording of move sequences in chess
  • Kifu, to describe a Go game
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