10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECIMALIST»
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1
The North British Review
There is no such coin—for aught we know there never was one-and so, says the
decimalist, there is an end of the matter. Softly, we entreat. Let him enter the
stores of Broadway, and the phrase “ two-and-sixpence” will greet his ears often ...
2
A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz: Studies in ...
It therefore seems appropriate to dedicate this study of IE numerals, which
emphasizes the anthropological side of an issue too long deemed solved on the
basis of phonological issues, to his memory. 1.1. The Traditional Decimalist View
of ...
3
Questions Communicated by Lord Overstone to the Decimal ...
Nothing like close questioning is attempted as to broken prices, except in .one
question, in which the arithmetician of the common system is suffered to divide by
24 in his head, while the poor decimalist cannot multiply by 2 without writing ...
Great Britain. Decimal Coinage Commission, 1857
4
Preliminary report: Presented to both Houses of Parliament ...
Nothing like close questioning is attempted as to broken prices, except in one
question, in which the arithmetician of the common system is suffered to divide by
24- in his Iiead, while the poor decimalist cannot multiply by 2 without writing ...
Great Britain. Decimal Coinage Commissioners, 1857
5
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A work of Universal ...
weights, etc. An aspect or position of two planets when they decimalist (des'i-mal-
ist), n. [< decimal + -ist.] are a tenth part of the zodiac (36°) distant from One who
employs or advocates computation or each other. numeration by tens. deciliter, ...
6
The Calendar: Its History, Structure and Improvement
The poet, with the characteristic obsession of a decimalist, advances various
fanciful reasons for its adoption. Plutarch, however, in his Life of Numa, states
that the Roman year during the reign of Romulus contained 360 days and that
the ...
7
Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
It may here be said by a decimalist, that not the continuous sexagintals, but even
the decimals, that I despise as so greatly their inferiors, have displaced in France,
for ordinary subje.ts except time, the compound tables that I am praising; ...
Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1873
8
Journal of the Society of Arts
... It is an abiding delusion of the opponent of decimals that he will suppose the
decimalist to be under a contract never to use a common fraction." Decimals are
not upheld as exclusively right, but rather as pre-eminently convenient ; and
when ...
lar polygons are also represented by whole numbers. A thorrough going
decimalist would divide the right angle into one hundred parts, in which case the
angles of an equilateral triangle, and the angle whose sine equals one-half
radius could ...
A thorough going decimalist would divide the right angle into one hundred parts,
in which case the angles of an equilateral triangle, and the angle whose sine
equals one-half radius could not be exactly expressed in whole numbers, nor
even ...
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, 1895
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