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
Adj. quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite; quinqevalent, pentavalent; quinquarticular†; octifid†; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal†, sexagenary†; hundredth, centesimal; millesimal &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
I may add, before I quit this subject, that the Martial system of arithmetic differs from ours principally in the use of a duodecimal instead of a decimal basis.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
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