Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system. · Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryConsisting of or involving a single element or component. · Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.
From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.
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