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12 is more divisible than 10. 10 can only be cut into 5's and 2's, 12 has 2, 3, 4, and 6.
but 10 exponentially speaking is more sound 10 100 1000 10000 100000 etc
True! And that's probably why we use base 10, also we have 10 fingers. But that's usually the argument for base 12. I think we do ok using it in just certain cases, like time and inches.
Actually this works fine in base 12 too! See my other comment for a more in-depth explanationz