I always thought eleven and twelve were remnants from when the system was more base twelveish. It was never actually base 12, that would have required inventin

I always thought eleven and twelve were remnants from when the system was more base twelveish. It was never actually base 12, that would have required inventing 0, But sometimes I wonder if we would not have been better off sticking with base 12. And before someone chimes in with "base 10 is natural because we have 10 fingers" no we have 8 fingers, by that logic we should be using base 8, but the real winner in using base 12 is count using your finger bones(there are twelve of them) and use your thumb to keep your count, use both hands and you can get to 100(144 in base 10). this is probably why base twelveish was so common, shepards counting sheep. try counting to 100 in base 10 on your fingers, not so natural now is it.