Two possible number systems that have, for purely theoretical reasons, attracted much attention, are the octonary and the duodecimal systems.
In pursuance of this idea, some writers have gone so far as to suggest symbols for 10 and 11, and to recast our entire numeral nomenclature to conform to the duodecimal base.
Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.
From a commercial stand-point this advantage is very great; so great that many have seriously advocated the entire abolition of the decimal scale, and the substitution of the duodecimal in its stead.
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.
Another invention, doubtless brought into being by the study of the movements of the heavenly bodies, was the duodecimal system of notation, of which the base was twelve.
Duodecimal unit, a unit in the scale of numbers increasing or decreasing by twelves.
In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line.
They learned to use both the decimal and the duodecimal systems (nowadays we use only the decimal system, which is a great pity).
It has already persuaded me to abandon the duodecimal method and to consign to the severest tortures any one who mentions it in my presence again.
The consistent duodecimal development of this idea appears to have belonged to the Italian nation, and to have preceded the first contact with the Greeks.
By a similar adjustment the Icelandic law makes twelve rams equivalent to a cow; only in this as in other instances the Germanic law has substituted the duodecimal for the older decimal system.
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.
And at the very first in Egypt, Chaldaea, and among the Turanian races generally, we find this duodecimal system firmly established.
But the day had been already divided into twenty-four hours, because the earliest Chaldaeans had adopted the duodecimal scale, and counted by sixes, twelves, and sixties.
If possible, this is even more true here than in the case of the duodecimal system.
Even prior to the age of Columbus, the decimal system made its appearance in certain more civilized parts of the Western world where the duodecimal system was never known.
In the formation of social groups, no less than in the classification and enumeration of external objects of nature, there may at times have been some vacillation of choice between the duodecimal and the decimal systems.
It is this element that has suggested the duodecimal base, to which some adhere so tenaciously, apparently because they have not ascertained the essential quality of a base.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duodecimal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
