The adoption of a fourth of the earth's circumference as a base for the new measures was itself a departure from the decimal system.
The fathom, the foot and its square, talents and bushels, the complete system of Chaldæan weights and measures, were based on the intimate alliance and parallel use of the decimal and duodecimal systems of notation.
IX French Metres Reduced to English Feet Metres English feet and Metres English feet and Metres English feet and decimal parts decimal parts decimal parts 1 3.
The duodecimal system of notation seems to have been the earliest system of notation invented; and it was an invention so important that we cannot imagine civilization without it and the decimal system, possibly its offspring.
Defn: The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows.
Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.
Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length of the tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity.
Defn: The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.
Defn: That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last repetend is 283.
The Decimal Classification is an admirable, successful, at least serviceable system; it is the established, the familiar, the most practical.
In Iowa, they use an accession book, the decimal classification, and a simple form of shelf-list.
The weights may be arranged on a decimal system, with intermediate weights for closer working, or they may be made so as to express multiples or factors.
The mineral is tied into the loop and weighed, the weight being set down in the note book, either in grains or decimal parts of an ounce.
Decimal system, while others, like the Patent Office, have systems peculiar to themselves.
The books are classified on a modification of the decimal system, and there are printed author and MS.
Previous to 1882 very little had been accomplished in the way of scientific classification schemes equipped with suitable notations, although the Decimal method of Mr Melvil Dewey had been applied in the United States.
The Hindu system of decimal notation made its way through the Arabs to modern nations, our usual figures being, in their origin, letters of the Sanskrit alphabet.
That the advantage of a uniform decimal system would more than balance the difficulty of change, no student of the subject now doubts.
If the whole world should unite on a single decimal system of measures and weights, like that now used in most of Europe, all would be gainers from the reduction of misunderstandings and miscalculations increasing the cost of exchange.
In these carefully written papers he treats a great variety of topics relating to astronomy, chronology, decimal coinage, life assurance, bibliography and the history of science.
His evidence on this subject was sought by the Royal Commission, and, besides constantly supporting the Decimal Association in periodical publications, he published several separate pamphlets on the subject.
Considerable labour was spent by De Morgan upon the subject of decimal coinage.
The strict decimal relation of the proposition is shown by the following table.
The same decimal number will apply to any given diameter, and you see by this rule that a balloon of two feet diameter will contain four cubic feet of gas, and that the quantities of ingredients, &c.
BC: The decimal positional writing of the numerals is universally adopted in Europe.
Only after about 600 years the decimal fractions were accepted.
BC: decimal fractions The decimal positional writing of the numerals was universally accepted but the fractions continued to be written based on image models (e.
BC: The decimal positional writing of the numerals, taken from Arabs, appears in Europe.
There was a complex mathematical justification to it that was clear to the other hackers only when they saw Jenson's program posted on a bulletin board, his way of telling them that he had taken the decimal print routine to its limit.
And if you wrote a GREAT decimal print routine, you might be able to call yourself a hacker.
More than a competition, the ultimate bumming of the decimal print routine became a sort of hacker Holy Grail.
This was a subroutines program within a program that you could sometimes integrate into many different programs--to translate binary numbers that the computer gave you into regular decimal numbers.
Various versions of decimal print routines had been around for some months.
This happened with the decimalprint routine program.
TABLE for Converting Lines, or Twelfth Parts of an Inch, and Fractions of Lines, into Decimal Fractions of the Inch.
I recommend to all who carry on experiments to procure similar divisions of the pound, which they will find both easy and simple in its application, with a very small knowledge of decimal fractions[54].
Table for converting lines or twelfth parts of the inch, and twelfth parts of lines, into decimal fractions, chiefly for the purpose of making the necessary corrections upon the quantities of gasses according to their barometrical pressure.
As, in these operations, which frequently recur, it is of great use to have means of abbreviation, I have given a table in the appendix for reducing lines and fractions of lines into decimal fractions of the inch.
French Appendix is a Table for converting ounces, gros, and grains, into the decimal fractions of the French pound; and No.
TABLE for Converting Lines, or Twelfth Parts of an Inch, and Fractions of Lines, into Decimal Fractions of the Inch, 481 No.
Note--The numbers in the above Table, if the Decimal point be carried three figures farther to the right hand, nearly express the absolute weight of an English cube foot of each substance in averdupois ounces.
Note A: All these relative quantities of caloric are expressed by the number of pounds of ice, anddecimal parts, melted during the several operations.
This can hardly be at all useful or necessary, as the barometers used in Britain are graduated in decimal fractions of the inch, but, being referred to by the Author in the text, it has been retained, and is No.
Think what great intelligence is required by the Napierian system, to raise a decimal that never terminates, to a decimal power that never terminates, in order to produce an integral number.
On the reverse side of the gage will be found the sizes of the wire in decimal fractions of an inch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decimal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
