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Sounds like your librarian may be thinking of the "Dewey Decimal Classification" which is a system for classifying books by subject and discipline, not for numbering the contents.
I'm aware of Dewey. You use Dewey in libraries, but you may use similar decimal systems for other purposes as well. E.g. for structuring topics covered in a text. If I understood it correctly, that's what Mike was looking for. Nevertheless, "decimal numbering" may be an alternative translation. Further proposals?
[rant]Dewey was not the first one using a decimal structure, so he couldn't even patent it. So you are free to apply a decimal structure elsewhere. That doesn't mean you shall copy it exactly. Think![/rant]
Edited: 11 Aug 2009, 11:32 p.m.