The Duo-Decimal System, Or How We Picked The Wrong Way To Count

Great arti­cle this one. Unfor­tu­nately the math­e­mat­i­cal advan­tages of dozenal tend to be hin­dered by the fact we only have a ten digit num­ber­ing sys­tem (0−9).

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Why We Should Switch To A Base-12 Count­ing Sys­tem
Humans, for the most part, count in chunks of 10 — that’s the foun­da­tion of the dec­i­mal sys­tem. Despite its near-universal adop­tion, how­ever, it’s a com­pletely arbi­trary num­ber­ing sys­tem that emerged …

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