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I think that guy was eating the glue(lemmy.ml)

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kvn@midwest.social
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Another benefit of base 12 is that you can count to 12 easily with one hand by using your thumb to count each of the 3 segments on your 4 fingers.

I learned that on that other website prior to the great migration and it blew my mind then.

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Gork@lemm.ee
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tries it

Whoa. Dude that’s super useful.

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Nailbar@sopuli.xyz
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I’m trying to think of a situation where I need to count to 12 on one hand πŸ€”

This would be useful if I was used to counting with base 12.

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CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world
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When ordering twelve beers

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static_motion@programming.dev
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Wait until you find out that binary counting allows you to count to 31 with one hand.

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SeaJ@lemm.ee
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Pros scale that up to base 60 by counting to 12 and using the other hand to count how many times they have counted to 12.

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Thems rookie numbers. You can get to 144 using the twelve segments on each hand.

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SeaJ@lemm.ee
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God tier is throwing your toes into the mix.

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mlfh@lemmy.ml
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That is so cool! Thanks for the tip

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