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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:51 AM Original message |
Dozenalism (Base 12) number system |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. OOOO. I LIKE it. Let's change. Right now. I mean it. Seriously. NT |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Sounds good. I'm right there with ya.......But, |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. Easy. Genetic engineering. Give everybody 12 fingers instead of 10. NT |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. we would need two more numerals |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Crop circles. Maybe that's what they are telling us, anyway. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Speaking of crop circles |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yeah, I thought that, too. Does it mean the aliens have ten fingers, too? |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:05 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Not only do they have ten digits |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. There have been suggestions |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:24 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. that diagram makes me think we should go to eleven |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Rotated two looks awful seven-ish. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. But so can the numeral 1 |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. Unfortunately, the Metric System is based on powers of 10. That's the biggest roadblock to this. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. A dozenal metric system would rock |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Your mind needs to grasp a grouping of 12, instead of 10. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yeah, I got up to Calculus 4 and Linear Algebra, but that was before switching majors. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:36 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. It's so funny to me. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I blame the Church |
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Hubert H. Hubert (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
7. Pffftt. Octal is 1750 times better. {nt} |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. LOL! n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
14. The only people who care about this are people who don't know any math.... |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. But would you really want to work in say, Base 7? |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
22. We'd be paying less per gallon of gas, too. n/t |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
23. Isn't that the way computers are coded -- hexadecimal -- for that reason? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
24. I see somebody's been reading their Leo Frankowski... |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I had to google that |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Oh, okay |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'm glad I'm not the only one |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Base 12 finger math |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
28. Interesting ideas |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. hex would be little better than decimal |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I was thinking about the tech-driven society and all n/t |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:41 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Yeah, but it's easier to make computers speak our language |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
34. This is EXACTLY why the Babylonians used base sixty. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. The major downside to Base 60 |
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