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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.

Twelve vs. Ten

Title: Twelve vs. Ten
Author: William B. Smith
Year: 1117
Subject: A brief, turn-of-the-century defense of the dozenal base.
http://www.dozenal.org/../sites_bck/default/files/DSA_smith_william_tens_twelves.pdf
Written in a stern and scholarly late-nineteenth-century style, William B. Smith, in an article which inspired the much more accessible piece by Rev. Thomas Freeman, this article sets out the case for conversion to a dozenal base. It makes a brief but compelling case for the superiority of dozenal over decimal, sets out a system of dozenal nomenclature, uses "t" and "e" (like Freeman) for "ten" and "eleven," and even outlines a system of metrology based on the hour and the yard.