Decimal system may refer to:
- The decimal (base ten) number system, used in mathematics for writing numbers and performing arithmetic.
- The Dewey Decimal System, a subject classification system used in libraries.
- The decimal currency system, where each unit of currency can be divided into 100 (or 10 or 1000) sub-units.
Famous quotes containing the words decimal and/or system:
“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children’s developing interests and abilities.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people’s own failure as individuals.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)