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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by albert_e on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:33AM (#38148581)
> I know some people say base-12 would be better, as it has lots of integer divisors

IF people with an extra digit on their hand were more common and they were somehow elevated to a priestly / godly class at some point by a dominant tribe ... we would pronbably have had base-12 number system

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Re:The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 ... by frankgrimesjr on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:54AM (#38148675)
You can count to 12 on one hand pretty easily without any extra digits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZwv9oFbI8
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