Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

Reference Dept of Thomas Jefferson Library (e-ref@umslvma.umsl.edu)
2 Aug 1995 00:25:54 GMT

rrd@fc.hp.com (Ray Depew) wrote:
>Paul F. Sagasta (pauls@mozart.inet.co.th) wrote:
>
>: Perhaps that good sense should come now. Should we switch to a base-12
>: numbering system?? Some advantages:

..snip...

>4) Most libraries are already using a duodecimal system to catalog their
>books.
>
>
>Regards
>Ray Depew
>rrd@fc.hp.com

This is a troll, right? That's Dewey Decimal, son,--not duodecimal--and
a lot of libraries, especially academic ones, don't use old Melvil's
system anymore.

Anne
Reference Librarian