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The Dozenal Society of America

The DSA is a voluntary, nonprofit education corporation, organized for the conduct of research and education of the public in the use of dozenal (also called duodecimal or base-twelve) in calculations, mathematics, weights and measures, and other branches of pure and applied science.

Dozenal Mathematical Displays Using LaTeX

Title:	Dozenal Mathematical Displays Using LaTeX
Author:	Donald P. Goodman III
Year:	11E6
Subject:	A brief description of the LaTeX package "dozenal."
db4a21a_0.pdf

A description of Mr. Goodman’s duodecimal extension of the LaTeX markup system, a layer of macros designed by L. Lamport which runs atop the TeX typesetting engine designed by Donald E. Knuth.

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Numeration on this site is in dozenal (also called duodecimal, or base twelve), using "X" for ten and "E" for eleven.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 X E 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1X 1E 20 21 22...
PDF documents may use a Dwiggins stylized "X" and "E" or the Pitman inverted "2" and "3".
The Humphrey point, or semicolon, is used for fractional parts; e.g., "0;6 = 0.5."