Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

Alan Arthur [Chops] (alana@metrologie.co.uk)
Wed, 02 Aug 1995 07:50:57 GMT

pfs@interport.net (Paul F. Sagasta) wrote:

>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:

>: (versus our current system of only the ten fingers?)

>Maybe we'll have 12 fingers by then.

Does this mean the Amish could already be using base 12???!!!

Chops

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