Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Radix (from Latin, basis) is the number base of a numeral system. e.g., binary is "base 2" and has a radix of 2. When describing radix in mathematical notation, b is generally used as a symbol for this concept; so, for a binary system, b equals 2. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.