============================================================ THE DSA NEWSCAST http://www.dozenal.org ============================================================ The Dozenal Society of America Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Official Newsletter 1 January 11EE ============================================================ ============================================================ = CONTENTS = ============================================================ 1. Donations 2. For Sale -Calendars for 11EE now available! 3. Dozenal News -General News -Dozenal Android Apps Expected Soon -Assistance Needed for iOS Apps 4. Society Business -501(c)(3) status restored! 5. Poetical Diversion 6. Backmatter ============================================================ = DONATIONS = ============================================================ Members, please remember that while dues are no longer required for membership, we still rely on the generosity of members to keep the DSA going. Donations of any amount, large or small, are welcome and needed. A donation of $10; ($12.) will procure Subscription membership, and entitles the payer to receive both a digital and a paper copy of the _Bulletin_ if requested. Other members will receive only a digital copy. To invoke this privilege, please notify the Editor of the Bulletin, Mike deVlieger, at mdevlieger@dozenal.org As members know, we are a volunteer organization which pays no salaries. As such, every penny you donate goes toward furthering the DSA's goals. It may be worth considering a monthly donation; say, $3, or $6, or whatever seems reasonable to you. This can be set up quite easily with Paypal or WePay, both of which are available at our web site. Of course, if you prefer to donate by check, you may send them to our worthy Treasurer, Jay Schiffman, payable to the Dozenal Society of America, at: Jay Schiffman 604-36 South Washington Square, #815 Philadelphia, PA 19106-4115 ----------------------Member Benefits----------------------- Chief among the benefits of membership, aside from the knowledge of supporting the DSA's mission, is receipt of _The Duodecimal Bulletin_. In addition, however, members also receive (digitally) a membership card containing their vital member information and a monthly calendar with dozenal numbers, containing suitable and educational dozenal quotations and graphics, laid out for wall display. To receive these, please notify us that you'd like to receive them: Contact@dozenal.org ============================================================ = FOR SALE = ============================================================ We are excited to announce the availability of calendars for next year, 11EE! The DSA is pleased to offer the following for sale. These are all either at cost, or the proceeds go to the Society. Wall Calendar for 11EE, coiled binding $10.05 Weekly Planner for 11EE $8.29 TGM: A Coherent Dozenal Metrology $8.00 Prices are, unfortunately but by necessity, in decimal. To find these works, simply go to: http://www.lulu.com/shop/shop.ep and enter the appropriate terms. E.g., searching for "11EE" will turn up these calendars and the planner; searching for "TGM dozenal" will turn up the TGM book. We hope to offer other titles, and even some other items (such as dozenal clocks and the like), in the near future. ============================================================ = DOZENAL NEWS = ============================================================ ------------------------General News------------------------ A little write-up of dozenal arithmetic, "How to Learn / Do Duodecimal / Dozenal / Base 12 Number System - A Math Lesson and Examples : 0-9 A B" was noticed this last month; toward the end it mentions and links to the DSA: http://paradigmsearch.hubpages.com/hub/duodecimal-base-12-dozenal This last September, the blog of Math 3010 at the University of Utah published an explanation and defense of dozenal back in September last year: http://3010tangents.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/we-need-more-fingers-2/ Paul Battisson gives us an interesting explanation of dozenal with a separate-identity symbology and nomenclature: http://paulbattisson.com/the-nooka-counting-systems/ Sadashiv Pradhan gives us a basic article about dozenal, with a pessimistic outlook on the prospects of a societal switch to it: http://sadashivpradhan.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-if-we-had-6-fingers.html Zyvra gives us a defense of dozenal and some links to programs which can deal with base twelve: http://www.zyvra.org/lafarr/math/dozenal.htm Finally, we ran into some links on dozenal clocks and calculators designed specifically for Windows 8, which may be interesting to our members who use that operating system: http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/other/DozenalClock/DozenalClock.html http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/simple-dozenal-calculator/5d79152e-4c5a-445e-b0a5-ab9b81cc4c1a -------------Dozenal Android Apps Expected Soon------------- Readers may recall from our last issue that the DSA discussed, at our annual meeting, the possibility of producing dozenal smartphone apps. We're pleased to announce that some basic dozenal smartphone apps for Android systems should be available within the month. These will include: -A dozenal clock, which provides a dozenalized version of our current time, each hour divided into 100; units. -A dozenal calculator, capable of the usual four functions, roots, powers, grouping via parentheses, and rudimentary memory functions. -A metric converter, working entirely in dozenal; this converts from SI, English/customary, and the dozenal system known as TGM. Also forthcoming is a dozenal calendar app, which will keep appointments by date and time in dozenal. This is still in alpha stages and will probably be released at a later time. ---------------Assistance Needed for iOS Apps--------------- If you are able to program or learn to program for the iOS operating system used on Apple mobile products, please contact us if you'd be willing to create apps similar to those above, or additional apps which might be useful and interesting to members of the DSA, for iOS. ============================================================ = SOCIETY BUSINESS = ============================================================ The DSA is pleased to announce that we have again been granted our 501(c)(3) status by the American Internal Revenue Service. This means that, according to applicable law, your donations to the DSA are once again tax-deductible. The effective date of this exemption is the date of our application; namely, May 21, 11E9 (May 25, 2013). So donations made after that date are tax-deductible. ============================================================ = POETICAL DIVERSION = ============================================================ May auld decimal be forgot, and never brought to mind! May auld decimal be forgot, and dozenal come rise! For dozenal should rise, my jo, for dozenal should rise! We'll see the fall of dec'mal yet, and dozenal shall rise! ============================================================ = BACKMATTER = ============================================================ _The DSA Newscast_ is a production of the Dozenal Society of America. If you have received this publication in error, or otherwise do not wish to receive it anymore, please unsubscribe by mailing a message containing the string "UNSUBSCRIBE NEWSCAST", exactly as typed, in its body, to the Reply-To address of this message. 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