"Decimal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hand. The sixth count begins with the little finger of the left hand, and the tenth reaches the thumb. The eleventh count begins with the little finger of the right hand again, and so the count continues. The Igorot system is evidently decimal. One man, however, invariably recorded his eleventh count on his toes, from which he returned to the little finger of his right hand for the ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks
... ago, when the Pall Mall Gazette sent round to all sorts and conditions of eminent men, inviting lists of "The Hundred Best Books"—the first serious attempt to introduce a decimal system into Great Britain—I remember that these eminent men's replies disclosed nothing so wonderful as their unanimity. We were prepared for Sir John Lubbock, but not, I think, for the host of celebrities who followed his hygienic example, ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... scarcely to speak; for at a King's Council only general reports were presented, no discussions took place, no fresh proposals were mooted; and so he sat and heard how this department or that was extending its beneficent operations, how statistics were completing to their last decimal places the prognostications of experts, and how along with these things imports and exports were balancing, trade declining, education advancing, and strikes growing every day more formidable and ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... rest of the family. Matilda coloured at first, and looked as if she knew nothing of the business; but a distinct answer was given at last, and Isabella's opinions of her sister's abilities rose with amazing rapidity, when she heard that Matilda understood decimal fractions. ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... arranged on a decimal system, with intermediate weights for closer working, or they may be made so as to express multiples ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various
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