What's the word for 0-nary ?

[nq:1]Hi all, This should be a quick one for some of you. With ref. to the sequence - Unary (1), Binary (2), Ternary (3), Quaternary (4), I am looking for the correct word to say "zero-nary" (0) Is there a valid word for this?[/nq]
Maple (a computer algebra system) has "nullary" operators, which have no operands. That seems to be what you want, but I don't know how "valid" the word is.
Dav

[nq:1]Hi all, This should be a quick one for some of you. With ref. to the sequence - Unary (1), ... am looking for the correct word to say "zero-nary" (0) Is there a valid word for this? Thanks, Sachin Kailaje.[/nq]
Don't know the word, sorry, but I'd be interested in where you would apply it. I tried to imagine a sense in it but couldn't find any.

I thought along these lines:
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[nq:1]Hi all, This should be a quick one for some of you. With ref. to the sequence - Unary (1), Binary (2), Ternary (3), Quaternary (4), I am looking for the correct word to say "zero-nary" (0) Is there a valid word for this?[/nq]
Nunnery?

John H
Yorkshire, England

[nq:1]Maple (a computer algebra system) has "nullary" operators, which have no operands.[/nq]
That stretches the concept of "operator" a bit. Isn't a 0-operand operator just a constant (which could of course be an operand)?

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[nq:2]Maple (a computer algebra system) has "nullary" operators, which have no operands.[/nq]
[nq:1]That stretches the concept of "operator" a bit. Isn't a 0-operand operator just a constant (which could of course be an operand)?[/nq]
Not necessarily...examples of nullary operators in my experience include function calls to return the date or time, those th

[nq:1]Code - nah. 010101 is already binary. 00 would be unary.[/nq]
It would be a code in which there are no digits. A bit can take two values. An ut can take one, namely zero, so you could have a 0-ut value, a 6-ut value or an 8-ut value, but only one of each exists.

OTOH, if you consider nullary, then since a nut :-) can take no values, you can only have a 0-nut value.
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[nq:2]Hi all, This should be a quick one for some ... say "zero-nary" (0) Is there a valid word for this?[/nq]
[nq:1]Maple (a computer algebra system) has "nullary" operators, which have no operands. That seems to be what you want, but I don't know how "valid" the word is. David[/nq]
FOLDOC has "nullary" and "niladic" and suggests the former is preferable. NIST prefers "0-ary" but also all

[nq:1]Richard Sabey filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]That stretches the concept of "operator" a bit. Isn't a 0-operand operator just a constant (which could of course be an operand)?[/nq]
[nq:1]Not necessarily...examples of nullary operators in my experience include function calls to return the date or time, those that return a random number, and those that increment some universal counter and re

[nq:1]With ref. to the sequence - Unary (1), Binary (2), Ternary (3), Quaternary (4), I am looking for the correct word to say "zero-nary" (0)[/nq]
I've seen both "nullary" and "nilary" used; google searches tell me that "nullary" is by far more common. But I don't think it's entirely accepted as standard. Mathematical types would use "n-ary" as the general term and accept formations like (n+1

[nq:2]With ref. to the sequence - Unary (1), Binary (2), Ternary (3), Quaternary (4), I am looking for the correct word to say "zero-nary" (0)[/nq]
[nq:1]Maple (a computer algebra system) has "nullary" operators, which have no operands. That seems to be what you want, but I don't know how "valid" the word is.[/nq]
My Latin dictionary does not list "nullarius", nor does the OED have "nullar