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A community for dozenalists has been created! (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A community for people who enjoy using base twelve and prefer it over base ten

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago

I didn't know there was a name for proponents of base 12 systems. There are dozens of us, dozens!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The proper term for Base-12 is Duodecimal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The problem with "duodecimal" is that it's in base ten, which makes it unfitting for a community centered around replacing base ten

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I hate to break the news to you, but a "dozen" is defined as a "group of 12" which is also a reference to Base-10. You might need to come up with a new word that doesn't reference Base-10. The inherent problem with switching to Base-12 is that we only have 10 fingers. If you switch to Base-12, 90% of the Earths population is going to be too stupid to count to 12. If we weren't wearing shoes, I think people could figure out how to count to 20, but Base-20 would not have as many advantages as Base-12.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I'm interested, what are some other similar / related systems.

I am aware of metric time (one day is 10 units of time) and tau (pi*2).

Well, probably some more, but I can't remember them right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I have my own base-16 time system I came up with https://fiftysix.scot/Base-16/Time , which I still need to finish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Everything may end up base 16 anyway due to the digital paradigm pervading nearly every aspect of life.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this but why would someone prefer base twelve?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Probably because same reason that day is currently split into 24 (12*2) hours.

12 is nicely divisible by 4 numbers (6, 4, 3, 2), while 10 is only by what, just number 5?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Ten is also divisible by 2

In base ten, you can tell when a number is divisible by 2, 5 and ten by looking only at the last number (if it ends on 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 its divisible by 2; if it ends on 5 or 0 its divisible by 5, if it ends on 0 its divisible by ten)

In dozenal, you can do this with 2,3,4,6 and twelve