different between duodenary vs senary

English

Etymology

From the Latin duod?n?rius (“containing twelve”).

Adjective

duodenary (not comparable)

1. Twelvefold.
2. Of the twelfth order.
3. (obsolete) Duodecimal.

English

Etymology

From the Latin s?n?rius (“consisting of six each”), from s?n? (“six each, six at a time”) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary).

Adjective

senary (not comparable)

1. Of sixth rank or order.
   • 2001, Manish K. Gupta, David G. Glynn, and T. Aaron Gulliver, On Senary Simplex Codes, in Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: proceedings of 14th International Symposium, Serdar Bozta?, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112

     In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).

2. (arithmetic) Of, pertaining to, or based on six.

   The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.

Translations

Noun

senary (uncountable)

1. (arithmetic) The numeral system which uses six as the base.

Translations

See also

• nullary (0)
• unary (1)
• binary (2)
• ternary (3)
• quaternary (4)
• quinary (5)
• septenary (7)
• octonary (8)
• novenary (9)
• denary (10)
• undenary (11)
• duodenary (12)
• vigenary (20)
• Appendix:English arities and adicities

Anagrams

• Arneys, Nearys, Neyras, Raneys, arynes, renays, sarney, yarnes, yearns