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Duodecimal is provably superior, and the world now uses it instead of decimal. This means that the metric system is now base-12, and inches, feet, and yards are the common units.
Surprising to many people, very little else changes.
Meanwhile, everyone learns they can count to 12 on one hand, and to 144 using both hands.
My eggs don't come in dozens before this change so I doubt they shall after (6 and 10 are most common in Japan)
Oh, a half dozen and 10? I wonder how that came about.
We have 1,2,4,6,10 and a flat which is 30ish. 6 and 10 are most common. Remember: smaller fridges and lots of people eat raw egg so they don't keep it around a long time
"I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?"
"You killed my father. Prepare to die."
And, for those who don't know:
Although I find out more comfortable to count across and then down; at least the first 4 numbers are the same as base-10 finger counting.
The best part is that with 2 hands you can count to 156 (12 * 12 on the dozens hand and 12 on the ones hand)
Edit: I missed your bit at the end about 2 hands and spent like 10 minutes counting on my hands like a dork double checking my work.
It should be a gross, or 144. How did you get 156? I'm curious! Maybe there's a counting method with which I'm unfamiliar.
Sounds like they can count to 144 on the dozens hand then use they're single hand for an additional 12 or at least that's how I'd go about it
Count to 31 on one hand, 1023 on both, just using the digits.
12 is easy: you have 3 phalanges on each of your 4 fingers, leaving your thumb as a placeholder to count to 12. How do you count to 31?
I'm aware of the abacus hand method, but sadly it wasn't taught when I was a kid in school, when my brain was still elastic. I'd probably have enjoyed math more if they had. Is counting to 31 part of that method?
It's just binary
Also you can still learn things. Sure kids pick stuff up quicker and get small nuances like accents in language but the human brain is very elastic throughout life.
Oh. Yeah, that requires more finger dexterity than is comfortable for me. Plus, "4" is problematic in public.
Lol. 4 is a great number in so many ways
US-centric? Half of these don't apply here now
Well, yeah. That's where I live. Maybe it's not common where you live, but I think in most countries in the world humans still have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 hours in a day, 360° on a compass, 12 face cards in a deck of cards, and so on. Do you have more than 12 signs on your zodiac (for whatever that superstition is worth).
I'll grant that a bouquet of roses might mean other than "a dozen" in other countries, and you might not even have doughnuts or cola where you live. How many beers come in a carry-able pack, where you live? Not 6? Do you not have muffin tins in your country? Toilet paper - you buy it by individual rolls, maybe?
Well, you'll just have you learn to adapt, because the world is dozenal, now. Everything comes in multiples of 12: a half-dozen, a dozen, a small gross, or a gross.
Are....Are you doing math with cards? Or zodiac signs? Or human ribs?
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A to 10 + JQK = 13
Face cards are cards with faces on them: J, Q, K: 3. Times 4 suits is 12. None of A-10 are face cards.
Doh! I knew that, just had a brain fart. Thanks.
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12 divides evenly by more integers than 10. Metric would be better in base 12.