Comment on Or we could do metric time
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months agoDon’t decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 months ago
With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But not for 1/5
kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you’re dealing with anything except for 10s.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.