vigesimal

vigesimal englannista suomeksi

1. lukuun 20 liittyvä

1. -kantainen">20-kantainen kaksikymmenkantainen

1. Substantiivi

vigesimal englanniksi

1. Occurring in intervals of twenty. (defdate)

2. (quote-book)

3. To the base twenty. (defdate)

4. (quote-book)|year=1871|volume=I|page=236|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AucLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA236|oclc=913570572|passage=To go on by hands and feet to 20, and thence to reckon by twenties, is a vigesimal notation. Now though in the larger proportion of known languages, no distinct mention of fingers and toes, hands and feet, is observable in the numerals themselves, yet the very schemes of quinary, decimal and vigesimal notation remain to vouch for such hand-and-foot counting having been the original method on which they were founded.

5. (quote-journal)

6. (quote-book), London, W.C.; Cape Town; Johannesburg; Port Elizabeth: Juta & Co.|year=1923|page=93|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXFV-9w2VWUC&pg=PA93|oclc=558087525|passage=With regard to the Danish numeral-words founded on the vigesimal system of numeration, it must be admitted that here the explanation fails which has been given for the divergence of the forms representing 70, 80 and 90 from the forms representing the lower numerals of 10 in the case of some other languages, since in the present case the forms for 50 and 60 also depart from the decimal system; (..)

7. A twentieth part.

8. (quote-book), New York; Pittsburg, Pa.: W. D. Cummings; San Francisco, Calif.: H. D. Watson|year=1876|volume=I (A–E)|page=1463|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=90BOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1463|columns=1–2|oclc=6846720|passage=1 The author of this article has also designed an instrumental contrivance for finding Easter by inspection, for any year from the beginning of the Christian era down to the end of hundredth century, in old style or new. (..) 2 Around the fixed ring here described is a rotary ring bearing the numbers from 1 to 19 (the golden numbers) twice repeated, and at the left of these the vigesimals, arranged in regular order.

9. (quote-book) The core process in the working of the system is progression from one vigesimal (twenty) point to the next. Multiplication generates multiples of ''ogún'' (twenty), or to be more exact, "multiple placing out," as the Yoruba verb embedded in the numeral has it. About the vigesimals, intermediate numerals are generated using tens and fives.