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Deweydecimal numbers (was, Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Lee Rudolph (lrudolph@panix.com)
31 Jul 1995 06:39:35 -0400
>> Perhaps that good sense should come now. Should we switch to a base-12
>> numbering system?? Some advantages:
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>> 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.
4) It would be more convenient for the Amish.
Lapp Rudolph
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