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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.

My Love Affair with Dozens

Title: My Love Affair with Dozens
Author: F. Emerson Andrews
Year: 1184
Subject: How Andrews fell in love with dozenal.
http://www.dozenal.org/../sites_bck/default/files/DSA-MyLoveAffair_0.pdf

One of the DSA’s Founders describes how he, a writer, fell in love with the number twelve through reason, and how the Duodecimal Society of America came to be established.
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