| 单词 | decimalist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈdecimalist ˈdecimalist n. an advocate of a decimal system, esp. of coinage, or weights and measures. ΚΠ 1855 Bankers' Mag. Apr. 235 The decimalists have to make twenty per cent. more figures, and consequently perform twenty per cent. more labour to produce the same result. 1887 Sat. Rev. 11 June 831/1 The decimalists..pester the general community with mils..and dimes and half dimes. 1991 C. B. Boyer & U. C. Merzbach Hist. Math. (ed. 2) xxii. 471 Lagrange firmly supported the decimalists against the duodecimalists, for he was not greatly impressed by the argument about divisibility. < as lemmas |
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