The duodecimal number system. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Utopian of all things, a duodecimal system of counting. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
Thus, 17 in the decimal scale would become 15 in the duodecimal. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Our numbering system was a duodecimal one, and so it fit right in. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Then came "the month of roses," as the Persians appropriately style that duodecimal portion of the year. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
Two possible number systems that have, for purely theoretical reasons, attracted much attention, are the octonary and the duodecimal systems. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
It is this element that has suggested the duodecimal base, to which some adhere so tenaciously, apparently because they have not ascertained the essential quality of a base. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
From a commercial stand-point this advantage is very great; so great that many have seriously advocated the entire abolition of the decimal scale, and the substitution of the duodecimal in its stead. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
In arithmetic, and in other disciplines as well, truths remain the same even if notations are changed, and it does not matter whether a decimal or a duodecimal number system is used (Leibniz 1670, 128). From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
The development of astronomy implies considerable progress in mathematics; it is not surprising, therefore, that the Babylonians should have invented an extremely simple method of ciphering or have discovered the convenience of the duodecimal system. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The duodecimal is not a natural scale in the same sense as are the quinary, the decimal, and the vigesimal; but it is a system which is called into being long after the complete development of one of the natural systems, solely because of the simple and familiar fractions into which its base is divided. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Three quarters of the Forms bear a duodecimal impress. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference
They learned to use both the decimal and the duodecimal systems. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations] Reference
This was the first transition from the duodecimal to the decimal system. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
But what a pity that we have not 12 fingers, with duodecimal fractions instead of decimals!. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
A little duodecimal of fairy love divides the desires of your heart and draws one wing down. From Wordnik.com. [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference
It has already persuaded me to abandon the duodecimal method and to consign to the severest tortures any one who mentions it in my presence again. From Wordnik.com. [On Something] Reference
In other words, the most frequently used fractions in business would be much more easily represented on the duodecimal scale than on the decimal scale that we now use. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Posh is thieves 'slang for a coin of small value, particularly the old duodecimal halfpenny, which was at least a coin you could get your fingers round and buy something with. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
But surely the world could have got on as well without that magic number seven; and after some hundreds of generations we are coming to feel that the decimal system of the Egyptians has advantages over the duodecimal system of the Babylonians. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Thus the zodiac was divided into twelve signs which astronomers of all subsequent times have continued to recognize; and the duodecimal system of counting took precedence with the Babylonian mathematicians over the more primitive and, as it seems to us, more satisfactory decimal system. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
The duodecimal system (ask your father what the word means), accounts for the sixty minutes and the sixty seconds and the twenty-four hours which seem to have so little in common with our modern world which would have divided day and night into twenty hours and the hour into fifty minutes and the minute into fifty seconds according to the rules of the restricted decimal system. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations] Reference
"twaindy" suggests at once we have come upon that most Utopian of all things, a duodecimal system of counting. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
The division of the circle into degrees, minutes, and seconds (360°, 60 ', 60 ") was an invention of the Babylonians which illustrates this duodecimal system A start was made in geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
(each system with its own rules), in the same way we accept that 7+5 equals 12 in the decimal system and 7+5 equals 10 in the duodecimal system. someone who was rather careless left out the 'nt after the could. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
(which generally decreased from north to south), officially arranged partly on the decimal system, were discarded by the people in ordinary commercial transactions for the more convenient duodecimal subdivision. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
Graphic novels by duodecimal. From Wordnik.com. [C2E2 Panel: Novels, Gaming and Information Literacy] Reference
Vladimir thought in duodecimal terms. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
144 in the decimal would become 100 in the duodecimal; and 1728, the cube of the new base, would of course be represented by the figures 1000. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
He is not worth a duodecimal. From Wordnik.com. [Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse] Reference
14. duodecimal. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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