duodecimal
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The jazz composer Bob Dorough wrote the banger-filled first season, “Multiplication Rock,” surveying a range of styles from the duodecimal prog-rock of “Little Twelvetoes” to the spiraling lullaby of “Figure Eight.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Eventually, ancient Egyptian astronomers who used the duodecimal counting system, based on 12, divided the day and night into 12 hours each, giving us 24 hours in the day.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
He spent the rest of the war in prison, betrayed by his ignorance of the duodecimal currency.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2012
In other words, the most frequently used fractions in business would be much more easily represented on the duodecimal scale than on the decimal scale that we now use.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.”
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
