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How To Use duodecimal In A Sentence

• Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have a mind to learn. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663
• the duodecimal number system
• In arithmetic, and in other disciplines as well, truths remain the same even if notations are changed, and it does not matter whether a decimal or a duodecimal number system is used (Leibniz 1670, 128). Thomas Hobbes
• 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
• In a duodecimal system (base twelve) why are letters sometimes used instead of numbers?
• The regime didn't like the 12-base, or duodecimal, calendar (inherited from antiquity and early Christianity), so it tried to impose a decimal calendar.
• The duodecimal calendar has survived since Babylonian times for a reason.
•   Our numbering system was a duodecimal one, and so it fit right in. Lord Conrads Crusade
• Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
• It later changed its name to the Dozenal Society of America, since the word “duodecimal” was deemed to be overly reminiscent of the system they were aiming to replace. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID