The UK used to have half pennies. But then the UK also used to have 144 pennies in 1 pound.
I gather this is imperial system related.
12 is arguably a better arithmetic base than 10 since it divides nicely by 2, 3, 4 and 6 instead of just 2 and 5.
I wish some countries would go this way and use 12-based as a default, while others would use 8-based because it’s closer to computers, and others will continue using 10-based.
And then no-one will denote the system used because it’s the default, how’s that you don’t understand. Oh what a beautiful world we’d be living in 🥰
The point is that there are benefits to several different arithmetic bases for different purposes and forming some kind of dogma around any of them is weird.
Right, having more whole, proper fractions to work with can also be simpler (and more precise) than truncating decimals and dealing with the implications of significant figures. I just don’t understand why people are so hostile to this as a basic idea. Base 12 has benefits, just like base ten does.
