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单词 sextal
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sextaladj.

Brit. /ˈsɛktl/, U.S. /ˈsɛkt(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin sextus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin sextus sixth (see sext n.1) + -al suffix1, after decimal adj. Compare octal adj.
Mathematics.
Designating a number system based on the number 6 rather than the usual 10. Cf. sexagesimal adj.
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nonary1604
decimal1616
binary arithmetic1796
octal1801
sextuple1815
ternary1860
sextal1943
1943 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1941 10 A purely native six-system; that is what we have in Finno-Ugrian... The sextal system, though not common among the languages of the world, is quite well-attested.
1962 Punch 4 Apr. 554/3 Age-grouping would be standardised (on the sextal scale, of course).
1971 Nature 12 Mar. 133/3 Like the SI prefixes, it perpetuates the sextal (and ternary) system for counting indices, while the rest of our number system is decimal.
1999 L. Honti in J. Gvozdanović Numeral Types & Changes Worldwide 246 There would be no place for the names of ‘10’ and its multiples in some sort of sextal or septimal system.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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