| 单词 | duodecimal |
| 例句 | He spent the rest of the war in prison, betrayed by his ignorance of the duodecimal currency. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z Eventually, ancient Egyptian astronomers who used the duodecimal counting system, based on 12, divided the day and night into 12 hours each, giving us 24 hours in the day. Get Ready For the New, Improved Second 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The numerical system of the Babylonians was sexagesimal and duodecimal, not decimal, and the year consisted of twelve months, not of ten. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z He introduced the decimal system to replace the cumbersome duodecimal method of calculation, which up to his time had been used in mathematical astronomy. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Based on the duodecimal system, similarly introduced, as more logical, and more readily used. The Last Evolution The Sissy Boy's infinitesimal, He is not worth a duodecimal. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse A little duodecimal of fairy love divides the desires of your heart and draws one wing down. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance 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. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Then came “the month of roses,” as the Persians appropriately style that duodecimal portion of the year. She and I, Volume 1 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Two possible number systems that have, for purely theoretical reasons, attracted much attention, are the octonary and the duodecimal systems. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Cato's unit of 240 jugera was based on the duodecimal system of weights and measures which the Romans had originally derived from Babylon but afterwards modified by the use of a decimal system. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro But what a pity that we have not 12 fingers, with duodecimal fractions instead of decimals! A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II True, neither of us could now extract a cube root with a stump puller, and it is sad to reflect how little call life has made for duodecimals. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Three quarters of the Forms bear a duodecimal impress. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development 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. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development 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. On Something I may add, before I quit this subject, that the Martial system of arithmetic differs from ours principally in the use of a duodecimal instead of a decimal basis. Across the Zodiac 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. A Modern Utopia Thus, 7° 20' 10" in circular measure, or 7' 20" 10''' in duodecimal long measure. Business Hints for Men and Women Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.” The Number Concept Its Origin and Development |
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