This seemed pedantic and silly to me until I read the reasoning in the wikipedia article. After all, we use numbers to do far more things than division, don't

This seemed pedantic and silly to me until I read the reasoning in the wikipedia article. After all, we use numbers to do far more things than division, don't we? However, I was impressed by the far-reaching implications of this fact. The regularity of the base 12 times table was particularly compelling. You know how easy the 2's and 5's row is to learn on the times table, right? There's an obvious pattern that's easy to memorize? Lots of numbers are like that in base 12.