The Duodecimal Bulletin

Editor: Dr. Patricia Zirkel

Cover Title: Panda-ing to Base Instincts

Contents:

• A Useful Application of Ternary Decimals | Jay Schiffman
• Duodecimal Test (II)
• Poor Man’s Base Conversion Algorithms | Jean Kelly
• From the Cover ... | What Do You Call a 6-Fingered Panda? | Gene Zirkel
• Sexist Language | Constitution and By-Laws Revision Committee
• Self-Descriptive Numbers | Mark Calandra
• Number Bases Elsewhere
  • “Computing Large Factorials” | Gerard Kiernan | The College Mathematical Journal
• How to Convert Fractions | Igor Valevsky
• Book Review
  • The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week | Eviatar Zerubavel
• A Question | John Earnest | names for digits in bases other than dozenal or decimal? generic words for base powers?
• Dizebak?
• Should You Serve on a DSA Committee?
• Dozenal Jottings
  • Fred Newhall | inventory of DSA Archives at Nassau Community College
  • DSGB’s Dozenal Jounral, No. 4, Spring 1196;
  • James Forster | retired teacher | dozenal circular slide rule
  • Prof. Baumeister | * and # for seven segment?
  • Notes on Rubik’s “Magic Cube” | David Singmaster
    • Referenced in Douglas Hofstadter | Metamatical Themas
  • H. W. Steele (New Zealand)
  • Anthony H. Sarno
  • Charles F. Marschner | introduced to dozenal in 1930 by Calvin Austin Brown of Mercersburg Academy
• Why Change?
• Counting in Dozens