Meanings of base 10 in English

The denary notation was unknown.

Each one was worth a denary, which was a coin worth about a shilling, or a quarter of a dollar.

Leibniz finally cleared his throat and said, "There are mechanical reasons, too-withdenary numbers, too many meshings of gears are necessary-frictionand backlash play havoc."

The number 10, or the Denary, is the measure of everything; and reduces multiplied numbers to unity.

Demosthenes, methods of, 174-m. Denmark, serpent, boy and signs on sacrificial vessels of, 501-l. Denary, the number ten, the measure of everything, 638-m.

The base ten gives only two weights that may be used.

I have unknown-repeat ,unknown-vesselsenteringthe star system, bearing one-seven-seven zero-niner-eight relative from the primary, range from base ten-point-seven-seven light-minutes.

In your base ten numbering system, that gives us a total of 65,535 separate symbols, not counting the null matrix.

"It's like base ten, except the ones place goes up to fifty-nine, and a hundred's worth thirty-six hundred."

That's a radical idea in a profession ruled by the Dewey decimal system.

But Miramon repeated that there was nothing like the decimal system.

Proof of this is found in the wide extended use of the decimal system.

Finger counting explains the origin of the decimal system.

They are, in great part, the tax exacted of us by our decimal system of arithmetic.