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A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Counting in base-12 can easily be accomplished on one's hands by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands (with the second hand as a placeholder for representing units of twelve) can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) 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. Dozen may also be used to express a large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs). According to one source, sales by the dozen may derive from English units, a system under which “one egg could be sold for a penny or 12 for a shilling, which was equal to 12 pennies.”
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Docena
Docena is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. Docena is 8 miles west-northwest of downtown Birmingham. Docena has a post office with ZIP code 35060.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Docena is ranked #131379 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Docena surname appeared 129 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Docena.
82.9% or 107 total occurrences were Asian.
7.7% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
6.2% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of docena in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of docena in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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- docenaSpanish
- DocenaItalian
- docenaNorwegian
- docenaPortuguese
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