Duodecimal

In decimal, 6 + 6 equals 12, but in duodecimal it equals 10; so, if using decimal arithmetic with duodecimal numbers one would arrive at an incorrect result.

Advocates of duodecimal systems argue that this is particularly true of financial calculations, in which the twelve months of the year often enter into calculations.

Anyone having these tables at command will do these calculations more than one-and-a-half times as fast in the duodecimal scale as in the decimal.

Clock dial displaying both decimal (inside the circle) and duodecimal time (on the outer rim).

Criticism and shortcomings Clock dial displaying both decimal and duodecimal time.

However, they are considered to come from Proto-Germanic *ainlif and *twalif (respectively one left and two left), both of which were decimal. citation citation Historically, units of time in many civilizations are duodecimal.

In either case the division reflected the widespread use of a duodecimal numbering system.

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

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.

Languages using duodecimal number systems are uncommon.

Ten days of the week French Revolutionary pocket watch showing ten-day décade names and thirty-day month numbers from the Republican Calendar, but with duodecimal time.

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.

The following chart compares the first few digits of the decimal and duodecimal representation of several of the most important algebraic and transcendental irrational numbers.

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.

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.

The ones provided below can be used to convert any duodecimal number between 0.01 and ƐƐƐ,ƐƐƐ.

They use the word "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" because the latter comes from Latin roots that express twelve in base-ten terminology.