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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.

The Duodecimal Bulletin

◀️ Issue: Whole Number 68z (80d) | Vol. 34z (40d) No. 2 | Year 119Bz (1991d) ▶️



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Editor: Dr. Patricia Zirkel

Cover Title: A Base Twelve Crossnumber Puzzle

Contents:

  • Solution to “Remembering Pi” | Charles Ashbacher &: Monte J. Zerger
  • What Would Be a Good Base? | Cedric Smith
  • Base 32 Backwards! | Andrew Hodges
  • A Proposal | Charles S. Bagley
  • Variations on 153DEK
    • Number One | Brian Dean (Ohio)
    • Number Two | S. Ferguson (DSGB)
    • Number Three | Gene Zirkel (New York)
  • History Professor Speaks to DSA Members | Gene Zirkel
    • Prof. Jens Ulff-Müller (Copenhagen) | seminar on history of counting and measuring at NCC | the long hundred
  • Available from the Society
  • Dozenal Jottings | From Members and Friends
    • John D. Hansen, Jr
    • Jay L. Schiffman | Congruences and Divisibility Tests | 49th Annual Meeting of Metropolitan New York Section of Mathematical Association of America
    • Peter D. Thomas | announcement of modular arithemtic work in American Metric Journal
    • Paul Schumacher | The Presidential Election of 1856 | in Topical Time
    • Dr. Patricia Zirkel | two paters on medieval topics
    • Henry C. Churchman | gift to DSA forwarded by John P. Churchman
    • kay McKiernan | gift in memory of husband Dr. Ellis R. Von Eschen
    • Bruce Moon
    • New Members: Joan Alice Young, Nader Rafaty Malaky, Robert S. Harris, Monte James Zerger, John Barton, Dale S. Milne, George Peter Jelliss
  • Solution to “A Cryptarithm” | A Puzzle
  • Why Change, Indeed? | Gene Zirkel | quoting American Metric Journal, Vol. 19, p. 3, unit 3, May/June 1991
  • A Base twelve Crossnumber Puzzle | Charles Ashbacher
  • Quote on 12 representing "completeness" in numerology | from Smithsonian, Feb 1987
  • Duodecimal Prime Palindromes | Charles W. Trigg
  • Counting in Dozens