A community for people who enjoy using base twelve and prefer it over base ten

  • Katie Ampersand@sopuli.xyzOP
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    3 years ago

    The problem with “duodecimal” is that it’s in base ten, which makes it unfitting for a community centered around replacing base ten

    • X51@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      I hate to break the news to you, but a “dozen” is defined as a “group of 12” which is also a reference to Base-10. You might need to come up with a new word that doesn’t reference Base-10. The inherent problem with switching to Base-12 is that we only have 10 fingers. If you switch to Base-12, 90% of the Earths population is going to be too stupid to count to 12. If we weren’t wearing shoes, I think people could figure out how to count to 20, but Base-20 would not have as many advantages as Base-12.