Life in Shang cities was highly regulated, with 12-month calendars, decimal measurement, conscription and centralised taxes.

在商代， 城市生活已十分规律，有将一年划分为十二个月的历法、十进制的度量衡单位、兵役制度以及中央税收制度。

A decimal-based bureaucracy enabled systematic and efficient taxation of the empire's subjects.

印加帝国的官僚采取十进制，这使得政府可以系统高效地进行征税。

Though the rods were replaced by beads, the decimal system rules remained unchanged.

尽管珠子代替了小棒，但十进制的规则并没有改变。

The numbering system we use works in tens. That's the basis of our counting system.

我们使用的记数系统十进制。这我们计数系统的基础前提。

In 1966, Australia switched from pounds to decimal currency.

1966 年，澳大利亚将英镑换成了十进制通货。

Finch, you sly dog. The Dewey decimal system.

芬奇 你个 杜威图书十进制分类法。

In Mesopotamia, it is thought that the Sumerians developed astronomy with their invention of the sexagesimal system, which is where 60 is the base number, which was then applied to calculating the hours of night and day.

在美索不达米亚，人们认为苏美尔人发明了六十进制系统，从而发展了天文学，其中 60 基数，用于计算昼夜的时间。

They explain that the hotel is organized based on the Dewey Decimal System and that the Baudelaires are to assist guests with whatever they want whenever the bell rings for them.

他们解释，酒店根据杜威十进制系统组织的，只要铃声响起，波德莱尔一家就要帮助客人做任何他们想要的事情。

It's not rare, I don't think, to have to share something amongst three people or four people and base 10 is just...irritating.

我认为，在三个人或四个人之间分享一些东西并不罕见，而十进制就… … 烦人。

But he still learned the Dewey Decimal System — even though he couldn't tell you how he learned it.

但，他还学了杜威十进制，尽管他无法出他怎么学的。

As the first country to complete the industrial revolution, Britain refused to introduce decimal system until 1971.

作为世界上第一个完成工业革命的国家，英国直到1971年还柜绝采用十进制。

It worked on a decimal system we still use today.

它使用的我们今天仍在使用的十进制系统。

While the most widely used numeral system on earth is the decimal or base 10 system.

而地球上使用最广泛的数字系统十进制或以 10 为基数的系统。

We convert in and out of base sixty quite a lot when we work out how many hours, things like that.

当我们计算出有多少小时这样诸如此类的问题时，我们采用六十进制进行了大量的转换。

It's no coincidence that the ten symbols we use in our modern numbering system are called digits as well.

我们在现代编号系统使用十个符号并不巧合，这称为十进制。

The decimal numeral system uses 10 decimal digits from 0 to 9 and a place value system to denote values of 10 or above.

十进制数字系统使用从0到9的10位十进制数字和位值系统来表示10或10以上的值。

For us, in the decimal society, we do that when we go from nine through to ten.

对我们所在的十进制社中，我们从九到十开始的。

The entire world has grown up with base ten.

整个世界都以十进制成长起来的。

Calculation with counting rods follows the same principles as the decimal system.

用算筹计算的原理与十进制相同。

But an understanding of the basis of the system remains essential.

但理解这个十进制系统的基础仍然必要的。