/sci/ - Science & Math

No joke dude, I was just about to go make a thread about base 12 on /r9k/. I think I may have even done so before...

Yes, I like it much better than base 10. But that could just be the novelty of it; the whole ten fingers and ten toes thing is quite convenient, but of course you can count on your hands using different methods...

>Do you agree that base twelve > base ten?

Yes.

>>1647768
One example of a way to count base 12 on the hands.

(I love learning ways to count using the fingers...so fun)

in all honesty hexadecimal > all

Count in unary:
0
[0]
[0, [0]]
[0, [0], [0, [0]]]
[0, [0], [0, [0]], [0, [0], [0, [0]]]]
...
it be the best.

so how would we pronounce it?
one two three four five six seven eight nine dek el ten... or dek el one-oh

>>1647756

Why is base 12 better than base 10? What makes it more useful? I don't get it.

No difference in usefulness. Might as well stay with the one we have.

sounds like a troll aimed at people who want to switch to the metric measuring system.

it's an antiquated counting system used by merchants. because it makes dividing stuff into thirds a bit easier in your head i guess.

Wouldn't we have to create new symbols to represent ten and eleven as one-digit numbers? Or am I missing something?

>Why? Counting in tens is a biological accident. If only we had been born with twelve fingers
how much simpler all this would be. But measuring was not accidental. It was devised by
practical people who used the fractions: 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. That is why merchants and tradespeople
chose to divide their units of weights and measures into twelve parts. Simply put, by choosing
twelve subdivisions, they could have their cake and eat it too. They could use the three most
common fractions without having to actually employ fractional notation. For 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of a
foot are 6, 4, and 3 inches respectively — whole numbers, not fractions!
You fucking americans, why can't you just use the fucking metric system and shut the fuck up for once. They would even change their systems base rather than use the right measurements adapted to the system.

>Base twelve > base ten

That's from an fucking non-metric point of view, any base can make sense in some cases, but nigger you just go full retard on that one

>>1648288
>You fucking americans, why can't you just use the fucking metric system and shut the fuck up for once

Why don't you shut the fuck up? In the US we use both metric and imperial or whatever the one with inches is called.

>>1648340

>He uses imperial

And that's where you fail

>>1648288
>>1648288

I believe all the number systems of the ancient world were base 6. Not exactly sure when people started using base 10.

>>1648364
wtf. There were all kinds of base systems. 20 was popular for a while.

>>1648364

Only the last line of the block was meant not to be greentexted

>>1648353
What's the matter, can't figure out how to multiply by 5280?

>>1648364

The ancient world sucked a fat dick. Do you think they could sit on their couches and watch TV? No, they couldn't, they were too busy scavenging for shitty food that didn't come in a convenient little box.