That's where this idea of using sixty comes from.

使用六十进制的想法的来源。

The entire world has grown up with base ten.

整个世界都以十进制成长起来的。

Base 10 is the way we write numbers.

十进制我写数字的方式。

Calculation with counting rods follows the same principles as the decimal system.

用算筹计算的原理与十进制相同。

In medieval Latin, algorismus simply meant the decimal number system.

在中世纪拉丁语中，agorismus 只指十进制数字。

It worked on a decimal system we still use today.

它使用的我今天仍在使用的十进制。

Finch, you sly dog. The Dewey decimal system.

芬奇 你个老滑头 杜威图书十进制分类法。

I wouldn't say we have to use the number system ten.

我不会说我必须使用十进制。

In 1966, Australia switched from pounds to decimal currency.

1966 年，澳大利亚将英镑换成了十进制通货。

A decimal-based bureaucracy enabled systematic and efficient taxation of the empire's subjects.

印加帝国的官僚采取十进制，使得政府可以效地进行征税。

The numbering system we use works in tens. That's the basis of our counting system.

我使用的记数十进制。我计数的基础前提。

Decimal measurements can be used to express all the patterns and principles of science and society.

十进制计量可以用来表达科学和社会的所有模式和原则。

For us, in the decimal society, we do that when we go from nine through to ten.

对我所在的十进制社会中，我从九到十开始的。

Though the rods were replaced by beads, the decimal system rules remained unchanged.

尽管珠子代替了小棒，但十进制的规则并没有改变。

Some times tables work more nicely in base twelve, some work more nicely in base ten.

有些乘法表在使用十二进制时运用得更好，有些使用十进制时运用得更好。

But an understanding of the basis of the system remains essential.

但理解个十进制的基础仍然必要的。

It's no coincidence that the ten symbols we use in our modern numbering system are called digits as well.

我在现代编号使用十个符号并不巧合，称为十进制。

While the most widely used numeral system on earth is the decimal or base 10 system.

而地球上使用最广泛的数字十进制或以 10 为基数的。

But he still learned the Dewey Decimal System — even though he couldn't tell you how he learned it.

但，他还学会了杜威十进制，尽管他无法说出他怎么学会的。

As the first country to complete the industrial revolution, Britain refused to introduce decimal system until 1971.

作为世界上第一个完成工业革命的国家，英国直到1971年还柜绝采用十进制。