duodecimal

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The jazz composer Bob Dorough wrote the banger-filled first season, “Multiplication Rock,” surveying a range of styles from the duodecimal prog-rock of “Little Twelvetoes” to the spiraling lullaby of “Figure Eight.”

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023

Eventually, ancient Egyptian astronomers who used the duodecimal counting system, based on 12, divided the day and night into 12 hours each, giving us 24 hours in the day.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022

He spent the rest of the war in prison, betrayed by his ignorance of the duodecimal currency.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012

Cato's unit of 240 jugera was based on the duodecimal system of weights and measures which the Romans had originally derived from Babylon but afterwards modified by the use of a decimal system.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.”

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard