Like A Duck@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoEuropeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?message-squaremessage-square601fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down127
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minus-squareUncle_Bagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down7·1 year agoI’ll convert to metric once we convert to a dozenal number system. Ten is a terrible number to base our counting system on.
minus-squareBluetreefrog@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year ago Ten is a terrible number to base our counting system on. Maybe when you are counting apples, but not when you are dealing with arbitrary amounts. Why else is our number system base 10?
minus-squareRouxibeau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agoBecause ten fingers. Base 12 is still better.
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year ago2x2x3. You can divide 12 so many ways, its nice.
I’ll convert to metric once we convert to a dozenal number system. Ten is a terrible number to base our counting system on.
Maybe when you are counting apples, but not when you are dealing with arbitrary amounts. Why else is our number system base 10?
Because ten fingers. Base 12 is still better.
2x2x3. You can divide 12 so many ways, its nice.