Quotes About Duodecimal

on this basis it developed a sexagesimal system of calculation by sixties, which became the parent of later duodecimal systems of reckoning by twelves.

The reformed and placated pirate-mariners brought with them many Danish customs. They had a different notation, which they would have been alarmed to hear described as the "duodecimal system". They thought in twelves instead of tens, and in our own day in certain parts of East Anglia the expression "the long hundred" (i.e., 120) is heard on market-days.