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Meanings of dozenal in English

A numeral system using twelve as its base.

Synonyms
Examples for "duodecimal"
Examples for "duodecimal"
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Three quarters of the Forms bear a duodecimal impress.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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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.
The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
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They learned to use both the decimal and the duodecimal systems (nowadays we use only the decimal system, which is a great pity).
Ancient Man: The Beginning of Civilizations
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But I can't bear Duodecimals, Position, and such things.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
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The Duodecimal System) of the measures of surface.
The History of Rome, Book II / From the Abolition of the Monarch...
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But UTC is still not good enough, grounded as it is in the base-12 tradition, said Yann Gamard, president and CEO of Swatch Group.
Wired
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The Duodecimal System) of the measures of surface.
The History of Rome, Book II / From the Abolition of the Monarch...
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They learned to use both the decimal and the duodecimal systems (nowadays we use only the decimal system, which is a great pity).
Ancient Man: The Beginning of Civilizations
Usage of dozenal in English
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How would you suggest a change from decimal to dozenal takes place?
The Guardian
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We just find the dozenal system easier, more efficient, and otherwise better than the decimal.
The Guardian
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I keep all my time in dozenal.
The Guardian
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I keep my calendar in dozenal.
The Guardian
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Face off: Telling the time using a dozenal clock is simpler, once you get used to the two new digits.
The Guardian
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The dozenal minute is 25 seconds, and there are 144 of them in the hour.]
The Guardian
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The DSA produces an excellent publication, the Duodecimal Bulletin, which contains many reasons why dozenal arithmetic is cleaner and simpler than decimal arithmetic.
The Guardian
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This means that on a dozenal clock face, as illustrated above, both the hour hand and the minute hand point to the precise time.
The Guardian
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The Dozenal Society of Great Britain still flies the flag in the UK.
The Guardian
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Most dozenalists believe that we should let dozenals speak for themselves.
The Guardian
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Do you use dozenals in your daily life and how?
The Guardian
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Telling the time is also more intuitive using dozenals.
The Guardian
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Finally, I do just about all my counting and private figuring, except for money, in dozenals.
The Guardian
Dozenal through the time