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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
by caseyohara 3y ago
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.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoFunny 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.
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- bdsa 3y agoWikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin