Translation for '
duodecimal' from English to Bulgarian
SYNO | duodecimal | one-twelfth | twelfth | ... |
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Usage Examples English
- Clock time and calendar time have duodecimal or sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, e.g., a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds.
- As with the duodecimal system, there have been occasional attempts to promote hexadecimal as the preferred numeral system.
- Borges also mentions in passing the duodecimal system (as well as others).
- The representations of irrational numbers in any positional number system (including decimal and duodecimal) neither terminate nor repeat.
- As with duodecimal time, decimal time was represented according to true solar time, rather than mean time, with noon being marked when the sun reached its highest point locally, which varied at different locations, and throughout the year.
- In 1875, Nystrom proposed a new duodecimal (base 12) system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology called the Duodenal system as an appendix in his book "A New Treatise on Elements of Mechanics Establishing Strict Precision in the Meaning of Dynamical Terms".
- Janji has, or had, a duodecimal number system.
- At the time of the British conquest, several of these languages were in the process of shifting from duodecimal to decimal systems.
- "A" and "B" in others (like the duodecimal numeral system, which also uses "t" and "e", or "A" and "B", for "10" and "11").
- 72 (seventy-two) is the natural number following 71 and preceding 73. It is half a gross or 6 dozen (i.e., 60 in duodecimal).
- ("Dragon (zodiac), duodecimal 5th of the 12 Earthly Branches; period from 7-9 AM; time period; occasion; star; celestial body") phonetic with the "chong" [...] ("insect; reptile") radical.
- The [...] "Humphrey point" is sometimes used as the "decimal point" in duodecimal numbers: 54;612 equals 64.510.
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