| 单词 | duodecimal system |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 |
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