Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system
psud@lemmy.world 10 months agoBase 60 has too many symbols for the digits
Base 12 you only need two more symbols to follow 9
Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system
psud@lemmy.world 10 months agoBase 60 has too many symbols for the digits
Base 12 you only need two more symbols to follow 9
Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah but it doesn’t have the same schwag as base 60
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean base 60 would be cool and all, but it would be unwieldy
Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 months ago
skill issue
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Indeed. I think you don’t want a number system that children can’t use
Base twelve already works great in our number names, with eleven and twelve being individually named unlike the teens