| United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a millr. Like the French, we took all these new denominations...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...we said a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its... | |
| John Bowring - Decimal system - 1854 - 302 pages
...said, a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its... | |
| Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...said, a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 502 pages
...we said a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...syllables to the generic term dollar, we reduced them to monosyltables, and made each of them significant by itself, without reference to the unit, of which... | |
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