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Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by Anarch157a on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:13AM (#20163716)
You can do base6 (which is almost as good) with your fingers. Use one hand for units, the other for tens, this way, you can count to 50b6, which is 35 in base10.
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