* ANITA Mk 10-1965, cold-cathode tube logic, full keyboard, 12-digit " Nixie "- type tube display, can display in Decimal or the pre-decimalisation Pound sterling Currency mode.

The Decimal Currency Act, 1970 governed legal tender prior to the adoption of the euro and laid down the analogous provisions as in United Kingdom legislation ( all inherited from previous British law ), namely: coins denominated above 10 pence became legal tender for payment not exceeding 10 pounds, coins denominated not more than 10 pence became legal tender for payment not exceeding 5 pounds, and bronze coins became legal tender for payment not exceeding 20 pence.

Also passed in 1964 was the Decimal Currency Act, which created the basis for a decimal currency, introduced in 1967.

The legislative basis for decimalisation in the Republic was the Decimal Currency Act, 1969.

Decimalisation was overseen by the Irish Decimal Currency Board, created on 12 June 1968.

It provided changeover information to the public including a pamphlet called Everyone's Guide to Decimal Currency.

* Bill Fiske, Baron Fiske ( 1905 – 1975 ), first leader of the Greater London Council, 1964 – 1967, and Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board

Finally, in 1960, a report prepared jointly by the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, followed by the success of decimalisation in South Africa, prompted the Government to set up the Committee of the Inquiry on Decimal Currency ( Halsbury Committee ) in 1961, which reported in 1963.

The Decimal Currency Board ( DCB ) was created to manage the transition, although the plans were not approved by Parliament until the Decimal Currency Act in May 1969.

Former Greater London Council leader Bill Fiske was named as the Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board.

William Geoffrey Fiske, Baron Fiske OBE ( 3 July 1905-13 January 1975 ), commonly known as Bill Fiske, was the first Leader of the Greater London Council and oversaw the decimalisation of the Pound Sterling as Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board.

He had already been handed a lifeline by Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan who, thinking of his Bank of England experience, appointed him Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board on 12 December 1966.

The Decimal Currency Board was wound up at the end of 1971, and Fiske then went into retirement.

* Kruger Gray designed the Reverse (" Tails ") of most of Australia's second set of currency, used from 1937 until the changeover to Decimal Currency in 1966.

Subsequently he served on many public bodies, including chairing the Committee on Decimal Currency ( 1961 – 1963 ).

The half crown was demonetised ( ahead of other pre-decimal coins ) on 1 January 1970, the year before the United Kingdom adopted decimal currency on Decimal Day.

It made the 5100 appear the same as an IBM 2741 Communications Terminal and was designed to be able to communicate with IBM 2741 compatible machines in start-stop mode using the EBCD ( Extended Binary Coded Decimal ) notation.

The Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ) character set contains 65 control codes, including all of the ASCII control codes as well as additional codes which are mostly used to control IBM peripherals.

Adaptations of DDC for specific regions outside the English-speaking world include the Korean Decimal Classification, the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries and the Nippon Decimal Classification ( Japanese ).

* Full text of A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library ( Dewey Decimal Classification ) ( 1876 ) from Project Gutenberg

It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U. S. and several other countries ; for example, Australia and Taiwan, ROC Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the older Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ).

Most classification systems like the Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ) and Library of Congress classification also add a cutter number to each work which adds a code for the author of the work.

Decimal prefixes are a characteristic of the metric system ; conversions between units of different magnitudes is accomplished by shifting the decimal point or changing an exponent ; for example, the speed of light may be expressed as km / s or.

Decimal fractions had been employed for the extraction of square roots some five centuries before his time, but nobody used decimal numbers in daily life.

Decimal odds are also favoured by betting exchanges because they are the easiest to work with for trading.

A particularly influential figure was Melvil Dewey ( inventor of the eponymous Dewey Decimal System, who was also responsible for the development of the hanging file folder ).

* Dewey Decimal Classification and Universal Decimal Classification for books

* Melvil Dewey ( 1851 – 1931 ), inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System for libraries

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The Yosemite Decimal System ( YDS ) is a three-part system used for rating the difficulty of walks, hikes, and climbs.

Given a MinDec ( Degrees, Minutes, Decimal Minutes ) coordinate such as 40 ° 26. 7717N, 79 ° 56. 93172W, convert it to a number of decimal degrees using the following method ( for example for 79 ° 56. 93172W ):

The changeover occurred on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971.

Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related.

Decimal fractions are commonly expressed without a denominator, the decimal separator being inserted into the numerator ( with leading zeros added if needed ) at the position from the right corresponding to the power of ten of the denominator ; e. g., 8 / 10, 83 / 100, 83 / 1000, and 8 / 10000 are expressed as 0. 8, 0. 83, 0. 083, and 0. 0008.

DDC's numbers formed the basis of the more expressive but complex Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ), which combines the basic Dewey numbers with selected punctuation marks ( comma, colon, parentheses, etc .).

Decimal multiplicative prefixes have been a feature of all forms of the metric system with many dating back to the system's introduction in the 1790s.

Originally based on the Dewey Decimal Classification, the UDC was developed as a new analytico-synthetic classification system with a significantly larger vocabulary and syntax that enables very detailed content indexing and information retrieval in large collections.

However sometimes, usually in indoor competitions, the standard Yosemite Decimal System is substituted with a similar but more accurate system, in which the technical difficulty of the problem is measured by a single 3 or 4 digit number ( e. g., 810 or 1150 ).

On Decimal Day 15 February 1971, the pound sterling became decimalised, with 100 new pence instead of 20 shillings of 12 pence ( 240 pence ) in a pound.

The government introduced a mascot, Decimal Dan, " the rand-cent man " to familiarise the populace with the new currency.

The following table makes a comparison with the WI system and the Yosemite Decimal System.

There is also another version of Yat, the Iotified Yat ( majuscule:, minuscule: ) which is a Cyrillic alphabet combined with a Decimal I and a Yat.

This reduced the number of new coins that had to be introduced on Decimal Day and meant that the public was already familiar with three of the six new coins.

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Each can occur in iotified form (), formed as ligatures with the letter Decimal I ( І ).

Aid climbing is sometimes errantly referred to as " Class 6 " climbing, since its reliance on ascent via one's equipment rather than merely being protected by it is regarded by purists as falling outside the traditional Classes 1-5 Yosemite Decimal System rankings that rely on making progress with one's hands and feet in direct contact with the rock alone.

The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988.

The hotel boasts a unique organizing principle: each of its ten guest floors has a theme, designated after a major category of the Dewey Decimal Classification ( the 5th floor, for example, is the 500s, the Sciences ), with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics ( Room 500. 001 ) or Botany ( Room 500. 004 ).

* Dewey Decimal Classification -- high level categories, with links to lower level categories

* The Dewey Decimal Classification assigns mathematics to division 510, with subdivisions for Algebra & number theory, Arithmetic, Topology, Analysis, Geometry, Numerical analysis, and Probabilities & applied mathematics.

Decimal fractions can also be expressed using scientific notation with negative exponents, such as, which represents 0. 0000006023.

Decimal fractions with infinitely many digits to the right of the decimal separator represent an infinite series.

The Roaring Fork Valley between it and Difficult Campground, 3 miles ( 4. 8 km ) east of Aspen, has many popular rock climbing areas, some with grades up to 5. 12 under the Yosemite Decimal System.

Decimal numbers written with leading zeros will likely be interpreted as octal, and will generate errors — not just unexpected results — if they contain ' 8 ' or ' 9 ' since these digits do not exist in octal.