2007-06-05 19:56:59 · 28 answers · asked by RAKHI A 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
12 in a dozen, and 13 in a bakers dozen
2007-06-05 20:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by tafowler12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dozen is another word for the number twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. The dozen is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 Ã 2 Ã 3 = 3 Ã 4 = 2 Ã 6, 60 = 12 Ã 5, 360 = 12 Ã 30. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (122 = 144, the duodecimal 100) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen (a dozen for each finger on both hands). A baker's dozen, also known as a long dozen, is thirteen (one extra for the baker to taste-test).
2007-06-06 05:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by Asher S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 05:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by Keatonzmama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 03:16:22 · answer #4 · answered by supa p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 03:00:33 · answer #5 · answered by sweetmemory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 02:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by skittishleo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 02:59:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 02:58:50 · answer #8 · answered by sparkley_fairy18 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 = a dozen
2007-06-06 02:58:40 · answer #9 · answered by kabokejo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12
2007-06-06 02:58:38 · answer #10 · answered by close_enough_4_ska 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋