- duodecimals
- duodecˈimals plural nounA method of calculating the area of a rectangle when the length and breadth are stated in feet and inches• • •Main Entry: ↑duodecimal
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The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical — was an early and popular English arithmetic textbook, written by Thomas Dilworth and published in America in the eighteenth century. The book reached from the introductory topics to the advanced in five sections: Section I, Whole Numbers included … Wikipedia
Duodecimal — Du o*dec i*mal, n. 1. A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. (Arch.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
