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[–] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Every time anyone talks about this, I feel obligated to inform them: there's also a counting system that's not based on ten, and it's way superior. Do people know about it? Most don't. The Wikipedia page stupidly calls it the "ten-plus-two" system, and there have been heated arguments there with the dumbasses who refuse to change it to the logical name. That's how stupidly-biased people are towards the ten-based system.

You make a "metric" measurement system based on 12-based counting and then everyone wins. Everyone. It'll never happen of course.

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