"system" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tens follow a vigesimal system from forty up, with the exception of fifty:
- A modern national language which uses a full vigesimal system is Dzongkha in Bhutan.
- The vigesimal system remains in robust use.
- This arithmetic tool was based on the vigesimal system (base 20).
- Vennemann regards the vigesimal system as a trait of the Vasconic language.
- The ancient Mayan numerical system - counting on fingers and toes - was a base 20 or "vigesimal" system.
- The Nordic vigesimal system may possibly derive ultimately from the Celtic.
- A vigesimal system with 5 as a sub-base is found in Nahuatl and the Maya numerals.
- Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, has a full vigesimal system, with numerals for the powers of twenty 20, 400, 8,000, and 160,000.
- The Kharosthi numeral system behaves like a partial vigesimal system.
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