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April blog post 3: The case for base twelve (Patreon)

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2016-04-27 01:01:55

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https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/26/the-case-for-base-twelve/

I wrote about base twelve and how it's great and okay mostly I just wanted to do a bunch of math in an uncommon base sorry

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The case for base twelve / fuzzy notepad

Decimal sucks. Ten is such an awkward number. Its only divisors are two and five. Two is nice, but five? Who cares about five? What about three and four? I have a simple solution to all of these non-problems and more, which is: we should switch to base twelve.