Positional notation

Positional notation - method for representing or encoding numbers. Article "Positional notation" in English Wikipedia has 49.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 23 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Positional notation" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Positional notation", its content was written by 283 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1038 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 306 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1896 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12134 in February 2004
• Global: #1934 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #65870 in October 2013
• Global: #45436 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, 2025 (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		56.8864
2	Greek (el) Σημειογραφία της θέσης		55.5553
3	English (en) Positional notation		49.5318
4	Finnish (fi) Paikkamerkintä		34.9931
5	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		29.6089
6	Arabic (ar) دلالة موضعية		29.3166
7	Basque (eu) Kokapen-notazio		27.727
8	Serbian (sr) Poziciona notacija		27.5281
9	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		24.1818
10	Tamil (ta) இடஞ்சார் குறியீடு		24.0829

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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		2 005 104
2	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		888 108
3	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		721 656
4	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		569 538
5	Chinese (zh) 进位制		222 450
6	Hindi (hi) स्थानिक मान		170 453
7	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		156 167
8	Hungarian (hu) Helyi érték		139 671
9	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		123 132
10	Turkish (tr) Basamak (matematik)		106 933

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Positional notation		8 610
2	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		1 601
3	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		1 270
4	Chinese (zh) 进位制		901
5	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		647
6	Simple English (simple) Place value		476
7	Turkish (tr) Basamak (matematik)		473
8	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		470
9	Hungarian (hu) Helyi érték		214
10	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		161

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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		283
2	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		188
3	Japanese (ja) 位取り記数法		80
4	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		71
5	Dutch (nl) Positiestelsel		69
6	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		59
7	Chinese (zh) 进位制		48
8	Italian (it) Notazione posizionale		36
9	Swedish (sv) Positionssystem		35
10	Hungarian (hu) Helyi érték		27

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Σημειογραφία της θέσης		2
2	English (en) Positional notation		2
3	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		1
4	Finnish (fi) Paikkamerkintä		1
5	Italian (it) Notazione posizionale		1
6	Dutch (nl) Positiestelsel		1
7	Arabic (ar) دلالة موضعية		0
8	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		0
9	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		0
10	Basque (eu) Kokapen-notazio		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		329
2	English (en) Positional notation		306
3	German (de) Stellenwertsystem		301
4	Chinese (zh) 进位制		216
5	French (fr) Notation positionnelle		145
6	Spanish (es) Notación posicional		95
7	Korean (ko) 위치 기수법		49
8	Catalan (ca) Notació posicional		43
9	Portuguese (pt) Notação posicional		42
10	Persian (fa) ارزش مکانی		39

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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: #65870 10.2013

Global: #45436 09.2021

Best Rank

English: #12134 02.2004

Global: #1934 05.2003

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