realitista@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoEvery base is base 10lemmy.worldimagemessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1810arrow-down125
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minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoCan we all use base 12? It will be a shower of shit for like 50 years but then it will be marginally better for pretty much everyone.
minus-squareted@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down1·1 year ago42* years. Centuries are now 84 years. We are living in the 19th century! I rate this idea 12/12.
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI rate it A/10, it’s a really efficient numbering system but I personally will have a really hard time adjusting
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year ago50 years? We can’t even switch to metric.
minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoEvery civilised country on earth uses metric. Only the really shitty ones use imperial. Imperial is just stupid (unless you count in base 12 ironically)
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agonah we should use binary, anything else is cringe.
minus-squareXanthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s Acadian, right? It was originally based on the number of easy to count bones in your fingers (12-24)
minus-squareproblematicPanther@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoso, 60 years in base 10
Can we all use base 12?
It will be a shower of shit for like 50 years but then it will be marginally better for pretty much everyone.
42* years. Centuries are now 84 years. We are living in the 19th century! I rate this idea 12/12.
5/7 movie
shut the f*k up rob
I rate it A/10, it’s a really efficient numbering system but I personally will have a really hard time adjusting
50 years? We can’t even switch to metric.
Every civilised country on earth uses metric.
Only the really shitty ones use imperial. Imperial is just stupid (unless you count in base 12 ironically)
nah we should use binary, anything else is cringe.
That’s Acadian, right? It was originally based on the number of easy to count bones in your fingers (12-24)
Or better yet, base 6?
so, 60 years in base 10