International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by bnjms on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:31PM (#18473352)

Additionally, base 12, would not act like 12 does in base 10, thus if base 12 is your key point of reference, a foot should be 10 in base 12 for inches.....

I honestly cannot make any sense of this part of your argument. The symbols 10 would only look like ten they would still mean a dozen and the properties would remain the same. Furthermore people don’t think in twelves because we are not taught in a dozenal numbering system. And there is no need for twelve fingers it would be a simple thing to create two additional hand symbols to teach children to count to a dozen.

Twelve is a great base. I would prefer it but it isn’t the sort of thing that can be changed.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by kiriakasis on Saturday November 17, 2018 @06:07AM (#18474979)

He is saying that you need twelve digits to actually use base 12 and that in every base N with N>1 you write N as 10 (eg in hex 10 is A and 16 is 10)

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by bnjms on Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:41PM (#18476764)

Understood, his mistake was this “base 12, would not act like 12 does in base 10". That statement is mistaken. A dozen would look like ‘10’ but it would still behave like a dozen.

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