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algebraic notation

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algebraic notation
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(Group Games / Chess & Draughts) Chess the standard method of denoting the squares on the chessboard, by allotting a letter, a, b, c, up to h, to each of the files running up the board from White's side, starting from the left, and a number to each of the ranks across the board, starting with White's first rank


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External forms of representation include, for example, the "conventional symbol systems of mathematics"--formal algebraic notation, graphs, or sketches.
Arithmetic means computation with numbers, and in the sixteenth century a lack of algebraic notation restricted the range of possible operations fairly strictly to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and (the crowning achievement of most contemporary libri di abbaco, the practical handbooks used by merchants) long division.
Metalinguistic awareness is important for understanding algebraic notation (MacGregor & Price, 1999).
 
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