• quantenzitrone@feddit.de
    93·
    11 months ago

    Using a base12 system would only make sense if we all started counting in base12 too.

    If enough people want that, i’d be down to start counting in base12, but i don’t think many people will lol.

    • p1mrx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      if we all started counting in base12 too

      You could start by calling it twelve instead of 12.

      • duffman@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        To keep things as simple/intuitive as they are today, we’d need two new symbols to represent the additional numbers. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,§,∆,10

        Of course it would be confusing as all hell for anyone alive today.

        • stewsters@lemmy.world
          21·
          11 months ago

          With hexadecimal we typically use a-f for the remaining numbers. We probably would use something like this for base 12:

          012345679ab

          Of course everyone knows the correct base to use is 2. Or as we call it, base 10.

          Actually, come to think of it, it would always be 10 in the base that it is.