Why don't we use a base-12 number system?
Why don't we use a base-12 number system?
It just dozen add up.
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All your base are belong to us
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Inspired by this post:
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I seem to remember from one episode on History channel of the aliens or something that somewhere the 12 base counting was used and made sense because you count with your thumb the inner parts of your fingers whete each has 3 parts.
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I think the Old Egyptians did that.
There are many different bases around the world, to think all of humanity uses base 10 because we have 10 fingers is wrong. You can count with the spaces between the fingers (base 8) for example
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Never thought about using that, but yeah, even base 8 makes sense.
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Dammit dad. Fine, take it (the upvote that is)
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Dozen't it, thought?
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Yes, really bizarro
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lol. Topical
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Only 10 fingers.
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12 knuckles on your fingers, use your thumb to count em.
Binary wins though, learn to read it and you can count uo to 2^10. Well, sort of. Ring fingers and little fingers ruin it for me.
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Someone else who knows how to finger count in base-12 and binary!
I think the binary one I learned as a joke, show someone they are number four.
The base-12 was an explanation for how the ancient Sumerians finger counted, using the other hand's fingers for groups of 12, leading to base 60 (5×12).
I have the same problem with binary counting practically though, and using a modified Sumerian system (both hands to 12) gets you to 144, which is plenty for anything where finger counting is actually useful.
One other thing, I use the finger bones rather than the knuckles, little easier but same idea.
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Skill issue
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You forgot the toes.
And for our male comrades, there's one extra ;)
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Or anyone from Norfolk
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Either way you'd need to make some... Edits... For the numbers to line up properly.
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Every base is base 10.
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All your base, are belong to us.
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Every base is 10.