| 词汇 | example_english_decimal-system |
| 释义 | Examples of decimal systemThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The tenth power of 100, for instance, when it is written in our decimalsystem, is a figure with twenty-one digits. Then the complications of the scheme have been criticised, and the decimalsystem has come in for a little criticism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The latter fits much more easily and would bring the full benefits of the decimalsystem, because it would only involve two places of decimals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever decimalsystem we finally choose, all—not some—of our coins must be changed so that the current value shall appear on them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For the sake of tidiness, it is best to avoid fractional coins in a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must be absolutely certain that no advantage is taken of this, as was taken with the decimalsystem, to increase prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall try to confine my remarks to lasting within ten minutes, which seems an appropriate length of time when discussing a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is as simple as that, if we have a pure decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One comes to the conclusion that if one wants to keep the £ system, it is not possible to have a pure decimalsystem with it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decimalsystem is in use all over the world, and therefore holds the field, and to stereotype the increased use of the inconvenient cwt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Also, perhaps above all, because we have a decimalsystem which includes the halfpenny, exact cost comparisons cannot be made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unlike the decimalsystem, the metric system is not predominant in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second argument in favour is the economy that could be obtained in industry and business by working with a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How much longer will it be before we have a decision about the decimalsystem, whether with regard to coinage or weights and measures? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have come to the conclusion that it was either a protest against the decimalsystem, or an uneasy compromise between 70 and 75. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am glad it was he who suggested that we should adopt the decimalsystem; that would indeed be a dramatic gesture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing magic about £1,000, except that it operates on the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was only a very short time after the introduction of the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the way in which a decimalsystem which will express any sum of money in two columns only is found. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a common belief that, once we go over to the decimalsystem, people will dismiss the ½p as of little value. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But from the general point of usage this coin will not produce any difficulty for a foreigner who is used to the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He talked about the impurity of introducing the half into the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody disputes that you cannot do that in a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I turn now to another coin of our decimalsystem, the 50p piece. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These points are not serious in planning a lasting decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many advantages for the country in adopting the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But could we not have the decimalsystem for speedometers on cars and trucks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The real question is: would it be too big a step to take to change to a decimalsystem? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a decimalsystem promised for 1970 or 1971. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the question of the adoption of a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is to urge again a switch to the decimalsystem for sterling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that it was one of the most ludicrous things of the decimalsystem that it cannot express the convenient fraction of one-third. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not matter whether there happens to be a coinage in this country which is on a decimalsystem or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are arguments for other systems, but basically world currencies adopt a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In offices, commercial houses and banks, calculations on the decimalsystem will be greatly simplified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One does not have the problem of thirds and two-thirds such as we have with the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor is it so easy to work where there is not a decimalsystem of coinage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer to going over from the old-fashioned system of arithmetic to the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was interested in the points he raised about the decimalsystem and the encouragement its use might give to our overseas trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other countries have recently changed to a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We changed our currency to a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To anyone coming here from a country which uses the decimalsystem our system is ununderstandable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am aware that a number of representative organisations have recently expressed support in principle for a decimalsystem of coinage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A system based on one pound, one florin, and one-tenth of a florin—ten-hundredths of a florin—is a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the most ludicrous things about the decimalsystem is its complete inability to express the common and convenient fraction of one-third. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the advantage of that is that they convert easily to a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one denies that costs will be involved for industry in changing over to the new decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is going over to the decimalsystem because we are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our numbers 10, 100 and 1,000 work on a decimalsystem, but our weights and measures do not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Speaking of the decimalsystem, we have to make clear the distinction of two facts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would it not be better to go into the question of the weights and measures themselves, with the idea of introducing the decimalsystem? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, we should be rather careful about making exaggerated claims for the ease and simplicity of the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of no system of calculation which is more easily understandable and easier to use than the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is interesting that the florin was introduced more than one hundred years ago in order to facilitate the change to a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sensible systems—the pint, the yard, the mile—all have much more relevant bases for intelligent measurement than any decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am merely criticising this decimalsystem and saying that what we have in the tanner is a symptom of a great malaise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The great advantage of the decimalsystem is that it aligns our treatment of measure with the use of language in terms of which numbers are expressed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a decimalsystem consisting of numbers only, where successive numbers serve to indicate area, a district of an area, a region within a district, etc. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you have the decimalsystem it is very easy to divide by 10; but, unfortunately, 10 is not always the number one wishes to divide by. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The great barrier to a decimalsystem is that to change the value of the £ might be regarded by foreigners as devaluation and not just a change of system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, the manufacturers themselves same years ago decided that they would abandon the apothecaries system and the imperial system, and now they all use the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decimalsystem is a foolish system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One can use any figure or fraction of a figure that one likes, but sometimes it is useful to use the decimalsystem, based on 100. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decimalsystem is idiotic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is therefore a little fallacious to suggest that the manufacture of computing machines is seriously interfered with because we have not a decimalsystem of coinage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that we are in danger of forgetting the whole purpose of the exercise, which is to convert our present system of currency into a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A point which has not been adequately considered is that the £ system is not a pure decimalsystem but has a vulgar fraction added on at the end. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are to try to carry out what has rightly been described as the largest currency conversion ever, from the present system to a decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Practically the whole world counts in the decimalsystem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So the real number in decimalsystem is 35.112. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was used in conjunction with a decimalsystem. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Comparatively, the decimalsystem is based on the number ten, the hexadecimal system is based on the number sixteen, and so on. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Positional decimalsystem is presently universally used in human writing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In primary education, students are taught to add numbers in the decimalsystem, starting with single digits and progressively tackling more difficult problems. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the decimalsystem, there are 10 digits, 0 through 9, which combine to form numbers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Instead, it adopted a decimalsystem in 1972, based on the lira (equal to the pound) subdivided into 1000 mils or 100 cents. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Kamlot describes a basto (a bison with the teeth of a carnivore) and the decimalsystem of weights and measures. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Addresses follow a decimalsystem, with addresses advancing by one hundred at each cross street. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In particular, when written in the decimalsystem, all multiples of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One aspect of this work was the suggestion of a decimalsystem of measurement, such as the metric system. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The books have been classified in the library according to the decimalsystem. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. That is it is graduated to the number base 60 and not to the base 10 or decimalsystem that we presently use. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The calculation is carried out in the decimalsystem, so the second main topic studied is in fact the decimalsystem. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To understand the decimalsystem he or she has to collect tens by himself or herself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most versions of the abacus use a biquinary system to simulate a decimalsystem for ease of calculation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. To convert a digit string from the quater-imaginary system to the decimalsystem, the standard formula for positional number systems can be used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But the decimalsystem was just one of a long list of innovations. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The decimalsystem was thought to be used but in fact, feet and inches are a more accurate indication of the measure used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For example, in the decimalsystem (base-10), the numeral 4327 means, noting that 1. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most of them are based upon a decimalsystem, doubtless owing to the habit of counting on the fingers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When written in the decimalsystem, all multiples of 5 will end in either 5 or 0. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This also helped to distinguish between new and old pence amounts during the changeover to the decimalsystem. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For example, for the decimalsystem the radix is 10, because it uses the 10 digits from 0 through 9. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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