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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for VIGESIMAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

based on the number twenty, also VICENARY, VICESIMAL
relating to or based on the number twenty
relating to or based on the number 20
Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

based on the number 20

Words related to VIGESIMAL

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How to use VIGESIMAL in a sentence

Hence these and similar number systems, though commonly alluded to as vigesimal, are really mixed scales, with 20 as their primary base.
If use is made of the toes in addition to the fingers, the outcome must inevitably be a vigesimal system.
To the statement just made respecting the origin of vigesimal counting, exception may, of course, be taken.
The number from which the new start is made is 20, and the resulting scale is inevitably vigesimal.
In any collection of the principal vigesimal number systems of the world, one would naturally begin with those possessed by the Celtic races of Europe.
Considering the fact that the use of vigesimal counting was universal among Celtic races, this explanation is quite gratuitous.
The five Celtic languages, Breton, Irish, Welsh, Manx, and Gaelic, contain the following well-defined vigesimal scales.
In connection with the Celtic language, mention must be made of the persistent vigesimal element which has held its place in French.
Besides these we find two or three numeral scales in Europe which contain distinct traces of vigesimal counting, though the scales are, as a whole, decidedly decimal.
Among the almost countless dialects of Africa we find a comparatively small number of vigesimal number systems.

This completes the scanty list of African vigesimal number systems that a patient and somewhat extended search has yielded.
In Asia the vigesimal system is to be found with greater frequency than in Europe or Africa, but it is still the exception.
In the Caucasus region a group of languages is found, in which all but three or four contain vigesimal systems.
The last of these scales is an unusual combination of decimal and vigesimal.
On the other hand, the odd tens are formed in the ordinary vigesimal manner.
This scale is in one sense wholly vigesimal, and in another way it is not to be regarded as pure, but as mixed.
In any unmixed vigesimal scale the word for 400 must be a simple word, and that number must be taken as the vigesimal unit corresponding to 100 in the decimal scale.
Further to the south, among the Dravidian races, the vigesimal element is also found.
In no other part of the world is vigesimal counting found so perfectly developed, and, among native races, so generally preferred, as in North and South America.
Some of the systems obtained from the languages of these peoples are perfect, extended examples of vigesimal counting, not to be duplicated in any other quarter of the globe.
The fact that a number system is partly decimal and partly vigesimal is found to be of such frequent occurrence that this point in the Tlingit scale need excite no special wonder.
In the following scale the vigesimal structure is still more obscure.
The essentially vigesimal character of this system changes in the formation of some of the higher numerals, and a suspicion of the decimal enters.
If extended as far as 20, these scales are likely to become vigesimal, but many stop far short of that limit, and no inconsiderable number of them fail to reach even 5.
Foerstemann that it was rather in consequence of the use of the vigesimal system in representing numbers.
In America we have, within a limited range of languages, vigesimal systems like the Mexican, and systems limited to the three first units like the Caribb.

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