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Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13 From the notion that a baker would include an extra item in a batch of twelve so as not to be accused of shortchanging a customer Half-dozen 6 Six of something Decade: 10
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 ...
A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen, 12 2). [1] [2] A great gross refers to a group of 1,728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen, 12 3). [1] [2] A small gross [3] or a great hundred [4] refers to a group of 120 items (ten dozen, 10×12). The term can be abbreviated gr. or gro., and dates from the early 15th ...
The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base.In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.
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.
The name of a number 10 3n+3, where n is greater than or equal to 1000, is formed by concatenating the names of the numbers of the form 10 3m+3, where m represents each group of comma-separated digits of n, with each but the last "-illion" trimmed to "-illi-", or, in the case of m = 0, either "-nilli-" or "-nillion". [17]
The name "United States Minor Outlying Islands" started to be used in 1986. [124] Previously, some of the islands were included in a group called "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands". Baker Island was named for Michael Baker in 1832. [125] Howland Island was named after a whaling vessel in 1842. [126]
The Natural Area Code, this is the smallest base such that all of 1 / 2 to 1 / 6 terminate, a number n is a regular number if and only if 1 / n terminates in base 30. 32: Duotrigesimal: Found in the Ngiti language. 33: Use of letters (except I, O, Q) with digits in vehicle registration plates of Hong Kong. 34