释义 |
sextal, a.|ˈsɛkstəl| [f. L. sext-us sixth + -al1.] Pertaining to a system of numerical notation with 6 as base.
1943Trans. 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. 1962Punch 4 Apr. 554/3 Age-grouping would be standardised (on the sextal scale, of course). 1971Nature 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. |