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Re:Preferred number by mikeash on Saturday August 01, 2015 @02:44PM (#9988195)
Because it conflicted with our number system, and we (mostly...) decided that harmony with the number system was better than divisibility. If both were base 12, there wouldn't be any conflict.
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