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
The numerical system of the Babylonians was sexagesimal and duodecimal, not decimal, and the year consisted of twelve months, not of ten.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Cato's unit of 240 jugera was based on the duodecimal system of weights and measures which the Romans had originally derived from Babylon but afterwards modified by the use of a decimal system.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison
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