Sentence examples for duodecimal from inspiring English sources
noun
A number system that uses 12 as its base.
Similarly, the pure base six scale seems to occur only sparsely in northwest Africa and is otherwise combined with the duodecimal, or base 12, system.
Georges Ifrah, a 20th-century French mathematician, proposed that the sexagesimal system grew out of an alternative method of counting known as the duodecimal system, common throughout Asia.
He spent the rest of the war in prison, betrayed by his ignorance of the duodecimal currency.
The DSA produces an excellent publication, the Duodecimal Bulletin, which contains many reasons why dozenal arithmetic is cleaner and simpler than decimal arithmetic.
The New Yorker, August 5, 1961 P. 18 Talk story on the eighteenth annual meeting of the Duodecimal Society of America held at the Carnegie Endowment International Center.
By J. Hanck, Paul Brodeur, and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, August 5, 1961 P. 18 Talk story on the eighteenth annual meeting of the Duodecimal Society of America held at the Carnegie Endowment International Center.
