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disme|daɪm|
var. of dime n. and v. The n., besides its historical use in the senses ‘tenth’ and ‘tithe’, is used, in the earliest Eng. book on the subject, for ‘Decimal arithmetic’, also attrib. or as adj. = ‘decimal’.
1608A. Norton (title) Disme: The Art of Tenths, or Decimall Arithmeticke..invented by Simon Stevin. Ibid. C j b, Disme is a kind of Arithmeticke, invented by the tenth progression..by which also all accounts..are dispatched by whole numbers, without fractions or broken numbers. Ibid. C ij b, The numbers of the second and third Definitions before-going [·364, ·3759] are generally called Disme numbers. Ibid., There are 3 orders of Disme numbers giuen. |