-ary may refer to: * The

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

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 or base is the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers. For example, for the decimal/denary system (the most common system in use today) the radix (base number) is t ...

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

alphabet (formal languages) In formal language theory, an alphabet is a non-empty set of symbol (programming), symbols/glyphs, typically thought of as representing letters, characters, or digits but among other possibilities the "symbols" could also be a set of phonemes (soun ...

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

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