Post #1371667
2026-02-21 23:18 UTC
The ancients counted on the bones of their fingers not their fingers. Finger reckoning in base 12 allows for advanced arithmetic without number tables simply by physical manipulation. We keep finding docdecahedrons like we keep finding clocks. Clocks have been in base12 for 5000 years.
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@OskarImKeller@fnordon.de 2026-02-22 00:35
@nf3xn All fingers but not the thumb? Otherwise I get base 14.