different between alphanumeric vs alphametic

English

Alternative forms

• alphameric
• alphamerical
• alphanumerical

Etymology

alpha(betic) + numeric

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl.f?.n(j)u??m?.??k/
• Rhymes: -???k
• Hyphenation: al?pha?nu?mer?ic

Adjective

alphanumeric (not comparable)

1. Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.
2. Consisting of these characters plus punctuation and other special characters.
   • 2005, Bali, 2000 Solved Problems in Digital Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill Education (?ISBN), page 36

     Therefore, we need a special code to represent all alphanumeric data (letters, symbols, and numbers).

Derived terms

• alphanumerical
• alphanumerically

Translations

Noun

alphanumeric (plural alphanumerics)

1. An alphanumeric character.
   • 2014, Pierre M. Nugues, Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: Theories, Implementation, and Application, Springer (?ISBN), page 268

     Finally, alphanumerics are digits, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or accented letters […]

Synonyms

• alnum

English

Etymology

Blend of alphabet +? arithmetic

Noun

alphametic (plural alphametics)

1. A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.

Synonyms

• cryptarithm

See also

• codeword

Anagrams

• emphatical