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Twelves and Tens



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Title: Twelves and Tens?

Author: A. C. Aitken

Year: 1164z (1965d)

Subject: Why dozenal is superior to decimal.

Mr. Aitken writes in The Listener makes a case for dozenal, citing fractions and the revolutionary ardor of French promoters of the decimal metric system.