Re:Pseudoprose
by caseyohara on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:58PM
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Base 12 is awesome. I've worked extensively in Base 12 on some music-related hobby projects and it makes me resent humans for having 10 fingers, which probably lead to our Base 10/decimal reality. Base 12/the dozenal system is objectively superior in so many ways.
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Re:Pseudoprose
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:38PM
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Funny thing about the fingers. There are twelve knuckles comprising the non-thumb fingers on one hand. I think that fact has actually influenced some civilizations to a base 12 number system but I can’t remember specifically which.
Wikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin