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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Huh, that actually makes some sense. How would it be written, I guess spoken you could easily go "eleven dozen and seven", presumably you would need another symbol for 10/11. Write it as B7 if you wanted to use A/B similar to how you would use A-F with hexadecimal.

Probably take some time to get used to it from being used to using decimal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    The "eleven dozen and seven" is functionally no different from "One hundred and thirty-nine." We'd just have 2 more characters than we do now.

    We even have a name for a third digit in base-12. 12 dozen is a "gross".

    The Babylonians used base 60, which is neat because it cleanly divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30, whereas base 10 has just 2 and 5.

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