duodecimal system

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Meaning

a positional system of numeration that uses duodecimal digits and a radix of twelve

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In Lee Carroll 's Kryon: Alchemy of the Human Spirit, a chapter is dedicated to the advantages of the duodecimal system. Source: Internet

In Leo Frankowski 's Conrad Stargard novels, Conrad introduces a duodecimal system of arithmetic at the suggestion of a merchant, who is accustomed to buying and selling goods in dozens and grosses, rather than tens or hundreds. Source: Internet

The duodecimal system is supposedly suggested by Kryon (a fictional entity believed in by New Age circles) for all-round use, aiming at better and more natural representation of nature of the Universe through mathematics. Source: Internet

The French Republican Calendar's days consisted of ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds, which marked a deviation from the duodecimal system used in many other devices by many cultures. Source: Internet

Their report of March 1791 to the Assemblée nationale constituante considered but rejected the view of Laplace that a duodecimal system of counting should replace the existing decimal system; the view such a system was bound to fail prevailed. Source: Internet

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