Meanings of decimal system in English

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.

Peter Clark wants to know: Did Maori use a decimal system prior to the colonisatation of Aotearoa.

The winnowing processes in the election of representatives were to be carried out on a decimal system.

The rectangular system of land surveys, like the decimal system of money, was devised and not inherited.

You lived in the days of the decimal system, the Arab system -tens ,andlittle hundreds and thousands.

That sort of thing was happening all the time just after the banks converted to the decimal system.'

New Zealand moved from a fractional currency of pounds, shillings and pence, to a decimal system of dollars and cents.

They improved trigonometry and algebra, and from India they borrowed the decimal system of notation and introduced it into the West.

The decimal system of coinage was introduced in 1859; this, of course, as is well known, necessitated a new issue of postal labels.

The decimal system, I believe, however, was due to a German, but whether he was a Christian or not, I do not know.

Each knot represented a different number, arranged in a decimal system, and each bundle likely held census data or summarized the contents of storehouses.

Though the student librarian's decimal system, invented in 1873, proved functional for literary work, it collapses before the task of classifying the evening news.