positional

«positional» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Having to do with the place or position of something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Having to do with the place or position of something. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In this essay it refers to a number system where the place of a digit matters, like our tens and hundreds.

examples

• Miller farther says: "The discovery of zero, as used above, implies its use in positional arithmetic. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Even if such an early date cannot be established, it appears likely that scholars will hereafter attribute the discovery of positional arithmetic to the Babylonians instead of the Hindoos." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «positional» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.