Bidecimal

Translation of "bidecimal" into Russian

Noun

bidecimal

bidecimals pl

бидецимал

The number 12 is a bidecimal.

Число 12 является бидецималом.

Noun

A numeral system whose base is twenty.

In a bidecimal, the symbol "10" represents twenty.

Adjective

Relating to or based on the number twenty (two tens); vigesimal.

The Mayan counting method is a bidecimal system rather than a decimal one.

Employing two successive decimal subdivisions to obtain finer precision.

Engineers used a bidecimal scale that divided each unit first into tenths and then each tenth into tenths.