DECIMAL SYSTEM

the name applied to any system of weights, measures, etc., which has the standard unit divided into tenths, hundredths, etc., for parts below it, and multiplied by ten or powers of ten for parts above it in value. It has been adopted for weights and measures and money in most of the European countries, but has been rejected in England and America for various reasons, one of the chief being that our system po e es better facilities for dividing into halves and quarters with fairne to purchasers than does the D.S. It has been found inapplicable to time TUS TRAJANUS (201-51), Rom. emperor of Illyrian extraction; did much to retard advance of Goths; great persecutor of Christians.