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S vs Unary - What's the difference?

s | unary |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective unary is

consisting of or involving a single element or component.

As a noun unary is

(mathematics) the unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    unary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
  • (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or input; having domain of dimension 1.
    • Negation is a unary operation.

    Noun

    (unaries)
  • (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
  • (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

    • Coordinate terms

    * binary * ternary