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Each one was worth a denary, which was a coin worth about a shilling, or a quarter of a dollar.
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The numeration was in the denary scale, so that it did not agree absolutely with the notation.
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But the system has never spread; and the word “dozen” itself is based on the denary scale.
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The words eleven and twelve have been supposed to suggest etymologically a denary basis (see, however, Numeral).
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There is no essential difference, however, between this and the denary basis.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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