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Reposting bc I dun goofed before

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

60 is good because you can divide it by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 which is convenient

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'll switch to metric when we adopt dozenal numbers, and not a moment sooner

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Compared to 100 which can only be divided by 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50. Not too bad, but not as good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With circles being 360 degrees, the base12 is cooler

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

idk what you mean, circles are 2π radians

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

yeah, lets all start counting in base-60

I'll start by counting to ten

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϟ 10