Base Ten

Supposedly this is left over from the pre-Latin Celtic inhabitants of France who had a base-twenty system instead of the base-ten that we have inherited from the Latin system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Donnan also believes that he has found evidence of a base-ten numbering system in the form of jars, bricks, and heads arranged in sets of five, ten, and 20. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Minute and hour are contradictory examples to the base-ten claim yet people covert time in their head just fine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The x-axis is the base-ten logarithm of the exchanged momentum expressed in GeV/c. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You are familiar with the base-ten clock by which we dress - the rigid rule of moving on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Purpose • Standard / core: Standard 1, objective 2, indicator b - Standard 1 Students will understand the base-ten numeration system, place value concepts, simple fractions and perform operations with whole numbers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As for the Mac, during the fiscal year Apple sold 10,396,000 computers, a new base-ten record, while the iPod continues to sell around 54 million units a year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

cridenour: I originally felt the same way until I realized that as of 1999, the IEC officially standardized "Kilobyte," "Megabyte," "Gigabyte," etc to mean the base-ten representation of those values. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"[You know what], [base ten] sucks. Its only [factors] are two, five, itself, and one. ❋ Dozenal>Decimal (2022)