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minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 month agoBoth 12 and 60 are superior highly composite numbers[1] which makes mental math easy. 60 in particular is a very nice number because it has 12 divisors and is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 6. 1 ↩︎
minus-squareOneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoWhat is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.
minus-squarethenextguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoWe need 6 fingers and switch to base12 math.
minus-squareSpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoI mean, you already have 12 phalanges on one hand (3 each, from 4 fingers) and you can use your thumb as an indicator.
minus-squareMonstera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoAnd the other hand to count up to 5 dozens, aka 60
minus-squarethe_crotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoWho over the age of 6 counts on their fingers
minus-squarekeepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWere it only the French metric people forcibly converted everyone to base 12 or something
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agohttps://youtu.be/rDDaEVcwIJM?si=M-a9Xd_rEw6lXCsg
Both 12 and 60 are superior highly composite numbers[1] which makes mental math easy. 60 in particular is a very nice number because it has 12 divisors and is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 6.
1 ↩︎
What is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.
We need 6 fingers and switch to base12 math.
I mean, you already have 12 phalanges on one hand (3 each, from 4 fingers) and you can use your thumb as an indicator.
And the other hand to count up to 5 dozens, aka 60
Who over the age of 6 counts on their fingers
Were it only the French metric people forcibly converted everyone to base 12 or something
https://youtu.be/rDDaEVcwIJM?si=M-a9Xd_rEw6lXCsg