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Definition of Duodecimals
1. duodecimal [n] - See also: duodecimal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duodecimals
Literary usage of Duodecimals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Arithmetic by Frederick Emerson (1834)
"duodecimals are compound numbers, the value of whose denominations diminish in a
... The foot being viewed as the unit, duodecimals present the following ..."
2. The Schoolmaster's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, Both by Thomas Dilworth (1818)
"Q, How do you write duodecimals ? r» I // /// nil A. Thus : 3 7 2 3 7, &c. ...
mj mark them tin ADDITION OF duodecimals. Note. 12 Fourths make 1 Third. ..."
3. Introduction to The National Arithmetic: On the Inductive System Combining by Benjamin Greenleaf (1874)
"duodecimals decrease from left to right, according to a scale of 12 (Art. 82;
... duodecimals are less used in practice than formerly, since all examples in ..."
4. A Practical Arithmetic by George Payn Quackenbos, George Roberts Perkins (1879)
"duodecimals arc a system of compound numbers, sometimes used as ... Hence the
term duodecimals, duodecim being the Latin for twelve. ..."
5. Higher Arithmetic, Or, the Science and Application of Numbers: Combining the by James Bates Thomson (1862)
"duodecimals are a species of compound numbers, the denominations of which ...
duodecimals may be added and subtracted in the same manner as the other ..."
6. The New Federal Calculator: Or, Scholar's Assistant: Containing the Most by Thomas T. Smiley (1830)
"What are duodecimals ? What are the denominations of ... ADDITION OF duodecimals.
Rale. Add as in Compound Addition, and carry 1 for every 12 to the next ..."
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