The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base. In duodecimal, the number twelve...
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Duodecimal system may refer to: duodecimal, a base-12 number system Dewey Decimal Classification, a misspelling of the library code This disambiguation...
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Numeral (linguistics) (section 12: duodecimal)
rudimentary duodecimal nomenclature, such as "two gross six dozen" for 360. Ancient Romans used a decimal system for integers, but switched to duodecimal for...
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following 71 and preceding 73. It is half a gross or six dozen (i.e., 60 in duodecimal). Seventy-two is a pronic number, as it is the product of 8 and 9. It...
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60, 360, and 2520. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal)...
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superior highly composite number, many of the arguments made in favor of the duodecimal system also apply to the senary system. The standard set of digits in...
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from the rest of Gwandara, acquired its duodecimal system from neighboring East Kainji languages. It is duodecimal even to powers of base twelve: The Nimbia...
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centuries), the situation is not as simple. Roman fractions were based on a duodecimal system. From 1⁄12 to 8⁄12 they were expressed as multiples of twelfths...
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de Aviación, a defunct Dominican airline Do, the number twelve in the duodecimal system D/O (disambiguation) D0 (disambiguation) (D followed by zero) Doe...
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duodecimal hundred, although that could literally also mean 144, which is twelve squared 144: a gross (a dozen dozens, second power of the duodecimal...
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