The "naturally occuring" bases people come up with are quite a bit stranger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefol_language#Counting_system https://en.wikipedi

The "naturally occuring" bases people come up with are quite a bit stranger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefol_language#Counting_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefol_language#Counting_syst... base 27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaugel_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaugel_language base 24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngiti_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngiti_language base 32 (well, CS people like that one) More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems#Standard_positional_numeral_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems#Standa... notes base 23 and others (https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/03/23/89-lera-boroditsky-on-language-thought-space-and-time/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/03/23/89-l... mentions base 87 or 81, but unfortunately got interrupted before she could name the language)