-ary may refer to: * The

arity In logic, mathematics, and computer science, arity () is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation. In mathematics, arity may also be called rank, but this word can have many other meanings. In logic and ...

of a function, operation, or relation ** -ary associativity, a specific rule attached to -ary functions *** -ary group, a generalization of group * The

radix In a positional numeral system, the radix (radices) or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers. For example, for the decimal system (the most common system in use today) the radix is ten, becaus ...

of a numerical representation system * The number of letters in an

alphabet (formal languages) In formal language theory, an alphabet, sometimes called a vocabulary, is a non-empty set of indivisible symbols/ characters/glyphs, typically thought of as representing letters, characters, digits, phonemes, or even words. The definition is used ...

** An -ary code *** An -ary Gray code *** An -ary Huffman code * An -ary tree

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