Playfair on Dozenalism
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| John Playfair, in his comments on the French Revolution, notes that it found itself in the unique position of being able to cast off all the shackles of a past age, yet was still too timid to cast off the most obvious mathematical shackle of all: the decimal system. An early defense of dozenalism, conducted not long after the French Revolution as an aside in some comments on the definition of the meter. | |||||||||||
