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Decimal system   /dˈɛsəməl sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Decimal system

noun
1.
A positional system of numeration that uses decimal digits and a base of ten.  Synonyms: decimal number system, decimal numeration system.



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... dominions, and published valuable works on medical science. They introduced more simple principles into mathematics, and extended the use and application of that science. They added to arithmetic the decimal system, and the Arabic numerals, which, however, are of Hindu origin; they simplified the trigonometry of the Greeks, and gave algebra more useful and general applications. Bagdad and Cordova had celebrated schools of astronomy, and observatories, and their astronomers made important discoveries; ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

... get English sovereigns when they can; why, then, don't they use them as such, instead of reckoning them each at twenty-five francs, and then trying to cheat you out of the proper exchange, which is always ten centimes more than the brokers give you? What, we use their beastly decimal system? Lois, I'm ashamed of you. An English girl to turn and rend her native country like that! Francs and centimes, indeed! Fancy proposing it at Peter Robinson's! No, I will not go by the boat, my dear. I hate the Rhine boats, crowded with nasty selfish pigs of Germans. ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Decimal system" :   decimal number system, decimal system of classification, positional representation system, positional notation, algorism, Dewey decimal system



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