Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings
Abstract
We construct positional numeral systems that work natively over nonderived polyadic -rings whose addition takes arguments and multiplication takes . In such rings, the length of an admissible additive word and a multiplicative tower are not arbitrary (as in the binary case), but "quantized". Our main contributions are the following. Existence: every commutative -ring admits a base- place-value expansion that respects the word length constraint in terms of numbers of operation compositions . Lower bound: the minimum number of digits is greater than or equal to the arity of addition . Representability gap: for only a proper subset of ring elements possess finite expansions, characterized by congruence-class arity shape invariants and . Mixed-base "polyadic clocks": allowing a different base at each position enlarges the design space quadratically in the digit count. Catalogues: explicit tables for the integer rings and illustrate how ordinary integers lift to distinct polyadic variables. These results lay the groundwork for faster arity-aware arithmetic, exotic coding schemes, and hardware that exploits operations beyond the binary pair.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.12930,
title = {Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings},
author = {Steven Duplij},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12930},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
13 pages, amslatex