Positional notation

Positional notation - method for representing or encoding numbers. Article “Positional notation” in English Wikipedia has 55.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.92 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Positional notation” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Positional notation”, its content was written by 295 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1062 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 294 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1841 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12123 in February 2004
• Global: #1939 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #67495 in October 2013
• Global: #45428 in September 2021

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		56.1139
2	Greek (el) Σημειογραφία της θέσης		55.9696
3	English (en) Positional notation		55.4939
4	Finnish (fi) Paikkamerkintä		34.9738
5	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		29.718
6	Arabic (ar) دلالة موضعية		29.2586
7	Basque (eu) Kokapen-notazio		27.7279
8	Serbian (sr) Poziciona notacija		27.5593
9	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		24.1818
10	Tamil (ta) இடஞ்சார் குறியீடு		24.0814

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Positional notation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Positional notation		2 084 811
2	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		909 423
3	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		731 437
4	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		587 542
5	Chinese (zh) 进位制		253 330
6	Hindi (hi) स्थानिक मान		171 887
7	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		162 037
8	Hungarian (hu) Helyi érték		141 999
9	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		125 081
10	Turkish (tr) Basamak (matematik)		115 851

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Positional notation" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Positional notation		5 561
2	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		1 271
3	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		1 206
4	Chinese (zh) 进位制		632
5	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		557
6	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		402
7	Turkish (tr) Basamak (matematik)		222
8	Italian (it) Notazione posizionale		114
9	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		106
10	Persian (fa) ارزش مکانی		84

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Positional notation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Positional notation		295
2	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		189
3	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		81
4	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		74
5	Dutch (nl) Positiestelsel		69
6	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		59
7	Chinese (zh) 进位制		51
8	Italian (it) Notazione posizionale		37
9	Swedish (sv) Positionssystem		36
10	Hungarian (hu) Helyi érték		28

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Positional notation" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Positional notation		4
2	Arabic (ar) دلالة موضعية		1
3	Basque (eu) Kokapen-notazio		1
4	Serbian (sr) Poziciona notacija		1
5	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		0
6	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		0
7	Greek (el) Σημειογραφία της θέσης		0
8	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		0
9	Persian (fa) ارزش مکانی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Paikkamerkintä		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Positional notation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		333
2	English (en) Positional notation		294
3	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		282
4	Chinese (zh) 进位制		204
5	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		143
6	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		90
7	Korean (ko) 위치 기수법		49
8	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		47
9	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		42
10	Persian (fa) ارزش مکانی		37

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دلالة موضعية
ca	Catalan Notació posicional
de	German Stellenwertsystem
el	Greek Σημειογραφία της θέσης
en	English Positional notation
es	Spanish Notación posicional
eu	Basque Kokapen-notazio
fa	Persian ارزش مکانی
fi	Finnish Paikkamerkintä
fr	French Notation positionnelle
gl	Galician Notación posicional
hi	Hindi स्थानिक मान
hu	Hungarian Helyi érték
id	Indonesian Notasi posisional
it	Italian Notazione posizionale
ja	Japanese 位取り記数法
ka	Georgian პოზიციური კოდი
ko	Korean 위치 기수법
la	Latin Notatio positionalis
nl	Dutch Positiestelsel
pt	Portuguese Notação posicional
simple	Simple English Place value
sr	Serbian Poziciona notacija
sv	Swedish Positionssystem
ta	Tamil இடஞ்சார் குறியீடு
tr	Turkish Basamak (matematik)
ur	Urdu محلی ترقیم
zh	Chinese 进位制
zhminnan	Min Nan Ūi-tì kì-siàu-hoat

Best Rank

English: #67495 10.2013

Global: #45428 09.2021

Best Rank

English: #12123 02.2004

Global: #1939 05.2003

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