"Duodecimal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common decimal scale, there exist in the English language other methods of counting, some of them formal enough to be dignified by the term system—as the sexagesimal method of measuring time and angular magnitude; and the duodecimal system of reckoning, so extensively used in buying and selling. Of these systems, other than decimal, two are noticed by Tylor,[218] and commented on at some length, ...
— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant |
