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So this guy won an Oscar for writing code. That's pretty wild. We could make the switch to 12 if we wanted. Ten fingers and two hands, so we can make a case th
by temporarely 3y ago
So this guy won an Oscar for writing code. That's pretty wild.
We could make the switch to 12 if we wanted. Ten fingers and two hands, so we can make a case that it is 'natural'. Then we have 2 and 3. Time is already on base 12/24. Then someone says hey, we got 5 fingers! And we're now doing base 60. Old school Sumerian. Time still works as well. All we need are glyphs for the digits, somehow reflecting the natural partitions into 12, 5, 3, and 2.