duodecimal system

That gives us what in a duodecimal system?

Based on the duodecimal system, similarly introduced, as more logical, and more readily used.

A plea that the duodecimal system be retained.

Roman fractions were based on a duodecimal system.

Duodecimal systems are based on 12.

The earthly branches is a duodecimal system.

As six is a superior highly composite number, many of the arguments made in favor of the duodecimal system also apply to this base.

Setting aside the merits or demerits of the duodecimal system itself, think of the cost of such a change.

Some Nigerians use duodecimal systems.

Duodecimal system may refer to:

Four cardinal directions, four seasons, duodecimal system, and vigesimal system are based on four.

As with the duodecimal system, there have been occasional attempts to promote hexadecimal as the preferred numeral system.

Advocates of duodecimal systems argue that this is particularly true of financial calculations, in which the twelve months of the year often enter into calculations.

In the old Maldive duodecimal system of counting, twelve thousand was a round figure such as a hundred thousand in the decimal system.

And being in Utopia, that unfamiliar "twaindy" suggests at once we have come upon that most Utopian of all things, a duodecimal system of counting.

The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal).

The duodecimal system (also known as base 12 or dozenal) is a positional notation numeral system using twelve as its base.

In duodecimal system, the smallest n-parasitic numbers are: (using inverted two and three for ten and eleven, respectively) (leading zeros are not allowed)

It is thought that Nimbia, which is isolated from the rest of Gwandara, acquired its duodecimal system from neighboring East Kainji languages.

In Lee Carroll's Kryon: Alchemy of the Human Spirit, a chapter is dedicated to the advantages of the duodecimal 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.

A notable fictional duodecimal system was that of J. R. R. Tolkien's Elvish languages, which used duodecimal as well as decimal.

In fact, as any mathematician will tell you, a duodecimal system based on counting to 12 would be far more useful because we can divide 12 into equal parts so much more easily than 10.

In mathematics, for instance (helped greatly by the duodecimal system, which resulted from their having twelve fingers), they became wonderful calculators; yet they never had the curiosity to inquire into the essential nature of number.

The case for the duodecimal system was put forth at length in F. Emerson Andrews' 1935 book 'New Numbers: How Acceptance of a Duodecimal Base Would Simplify Mathematics'.