Exempel på decimal system

• A conspicuous example is the proposed adoption of the decimal system in coinage and weights and measures. 

• A purely decimal system of coins would be an intolerable nuisance, because it would require a greatly increased number of small coins. 

• He wrote textbooks of astronomy, geometry and medicine, and introduced the Arabic numbers and the decimal system into Europe. 

• The great advantage of these numbers is, that they proceed on the decimal system—that is, they denote different values according to their relative places, each character signifying ten times more accordingly as it occupies a place higher. 

• The simple and scientific method of computation by what is called the decimal system, is used at this moment, we are told, by more than half the human race. 

• The tenth power of 100, for instance, when it is written in our decimal system, is a figure with twenty-one digits.

• Then the complications of the scheme have been criticised, and the decimal system has come in for a little criticism.

• The latter fits much more easily and would bring the full benefits of the decimal system, because it would only involve two places of decimals.

• Whatever decimal system we finally choose, all—not some—of our coins must be changed so that the current value shall appear on them.

• For the sake of tidiness, it is best to avoid fractional coins in a decimal system.

• We must be absolutely certain that no advantage is taken of this, as was taken with the decimal system, to increase prices.

• I shall try to confine my remarks to lasting within ten minutes, which seems an appropriate length of time when discussing a decimal system.

• It is as simple as that, if we have a pure decimal system.

• One comes to the conclusion that if one wants to keep the £ system, it is not possible to have a pure decimal system with it.

• The decimal system is in use all over the world, and therefore holds the field, and to stereotype the increased use of the inconvenient cwt.

• Also, perhaps above all, because we have a decimal system which includes the halfpenny, exact cost comparisons cannot be made.

• Unlike the decimal system, the metric system is not predominant in the world.

• The second argument in favour is the economy that could be obtained in industry and business by working with a decimal system.

• How much longer will it be before we have a decision about the decimal system, whether with regard to coinage or weights and measures?

• I have come to the conclusion that it was either a protest against the decimal system, or an uneasy compromise between 70 and 75.