Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: radix
radix
the base of a number system. Binary numbers have a radix of 2, and decimal numbers have a radix of 10.
Dictionary of Insurance Terms: radix
radix
base upon which a mortality table is built by beginning with a randomly selected group of people who are alive at the earliest age for which statistics are available on the number of people alive at that age. From this data, the rates of mortality can be used to build "the number of people alive at a given age" and "the number of people who die at a given age" columns in the mortality table.
