The
duodecimal system (also known as
base 12 or
dozenal) is a
positional notation numeral system using
twelve as its
base. In this system, the number
ten may be written by a rotated "2" (
2) and the number
eleven by a rotated "3" (
3). This notation was introduced by Sir
Isaac Pitman. These digit forms are available as
Unicode characters on computerized systems since June 2015 as ↊ (
Code point 218A) and ↋ (Code point 218B), respectively. Other notations use "A", "T", or "X" for ten and "B" or "E" for eleven. The number twelve (that is, the number written as "12" in the
base ten numerical system) is instead written as "10" in duodecimal (meaning "1
dozen and 0 units", instead of "1 ten and 0 units"), whereas the digit string "12" means "1 dozen and 2 units" (i.e. the same number that in decimal is written as "14"). Similarly, in duodecimal "100" means "1
gross", "1000" means "1
great gross", and "0.1" means "1 twelfth" (instead of their decimal meanings "1 hundred", "1 thousand", and "1 tenth").