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Twelve dozen Score: 20 Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty. [3] [4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery. [5] Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang ...
Twelve dozen (12 2 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (12 3 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. Dozen may also be used to express a moderately large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g ...
Another nominal for twelve (12 10) is a dozen (10 12 or 1•10 1 12). One hundred and forty-four (144 10) is also known as a gross (100 12 or 1•10 2 12). One thousand, seven hundred and twenty-eight is (1728 10) also known as a great-gross (1,000 12 or 1•10 3 12).
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
Some words that have a precise numerical definition can be used indefinitely. For example: couple (2), [21] dozen (12), score (20); myriad (10,000). When a quantity word is prefixed with an indefinite article then it is sometimes intended or interpreted to be indefinite. For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be ...
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.
Unit: 1 (based on a single entity of counting or measurement of an object or item) Pair: 2 (the base of the binary numeral system) Leash: 3 (the base of the trinary numeral system) Dozen: 12 (the base of the duodecimal numeral system) Baker's dozen: 13 (based on a group of thirteen objects or items) Score: 20 (the base of the vigesimal numeral ...
D0 20 is equivalent to two hundred and sixty in decimal = (13 × 20 1) + (0 × 20 0) 100 20 is equivalent to four hundred in decimal = (1 × 20 2) + (0 × 20 1) + (0 × 20 0). In the rest of this article below, numbers are expressed in decimal notation, unless specified otherwise. For example, 10 means ten, 20 means twenty. Numbers in vigesimal ...