/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9647086

Because fingers.

>>9647086
Because the french revolution says so.

>>9647100
But fingers are practically arranged as 2^1 thumbs + 2^3 fingers and thinking in 10s obscures this reeeeee

>>9647104
> In 1793, the French smashed the old clock in favor of French Revolutionary Time: a 10-hour day, with 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. This thoroughly modern system had a few practical benefits, chief among them being a simplified way to do time-related math: if we want to know when a day is 70% complete, decimal time simply says "at the end of the seventh hour," whereas standard time requires us to say "at 16 hours, 48 minutes." French Revolutionary Time was a more elegant solution to that math problem. The trick was that every living person already had a well-established way to tell time, and old habits die hard.

At least we saved our selves from that one.

>>9647100
There's even 2^1 hands reeeeee

Even "10" is written using 2^1 different symbols, as is every whole number power of 10.

>>9647104
The looniest conspiracy theory I could come up with is that mathematics has a lot of jewz and religious people and kabbalah is base 10 in that there are 10 sephirot so they wouldn't like to admit that 2 is more fundamental/frequent in thought, artifice and nature
REEE mommy it doesn't make sense

>>9647153
i'd actually prefer to have clocks consistent with our base of choice, but this just shows why decimal is inferior to duodecimal

>>9647321
>not wanting the luxuriant 16 (1,00,00) hour clock of binary with 10,00,00 hours in a day

>>9647086
>FIX THIS
fucking learn math
done

>>9647086
What benefit is this to the lay man?

Some of us have to pass turing tests to speak, but I think base 12 is the most reasonable position to put the decimal.

>>9647748
>Keep something needlessly difficult as a sort of hazing ritual that keeps the population innumerate and hinders mathematical knowledge

>>9647086
Why the FUCK do we still count single digits on our fingers and still not have binary finger counting for all the whole of hands of 2?

>>9647806

>>9647810

>>9647759
Second

>>9647780
If you don't understand base 10 you should literally kill yourself
My mother's special ed students have no problems learning it

>>9647806
smug bitch

hex is patrician. All else is pleb tier.