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

From a commercial stand-point this advantage is very great; so great that many have seriously advocated the entire abolition of the decimal scale, and the substitution of the duodecimal in its stead.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

It is this element that has suggested the duodecimal base, to which some adhere so tenaciously, apparently because they have not ascertained the essential quality of a base.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various