Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Paul F. Sagasta (pfs@interport.net)
31 Jul 1995 10:32:48 -0400
C.V. Kimbrell (kimbrell@pixi.com) wrote:
: > Perhaps that good sense should come now. Should we switch to a base-12
: > numbering system?? Some advantages:
: >
: > 1) clocks (time), compass readings, many tool sizes, the 12 inch ft.,
: > etc. could all be expressed "decimally" (in the new system),
: > 2) twelve is more easily divisible than 10!!
: > 3) U.S. and U.K could tell the rest of the world to switch to our
: > base-12/English measurement system.
: > Any other believers?
: i can just see anthropologists 10,000 years from now speculating that the
: base twelve number system was developed due to our limited intelligence
: and having to base all of our calculations on our ten fingers and two feet
: (versus our current system of only the ten fingers?)
Maybe we'll have 12 fingers by then.
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Paul F. Sagasta
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