“The infantry were organized decimally in units of a thousand, with a company and section structure under designated officers.”

“Nor did the fact that continental Europeans, influenced by the perfidious doctrine of metrication that the French revolution invented and Napoleon disseminated, long ago decided to quote their stock prices decimally.”

“Gabriel Mouton, the vicar of St. Pauls Church in Lyon, France, and a noted mathematician and astronomer, suggested a linear measure based on the arc of one minute of longitude, to be subdivided decimally.”