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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Reading the title is giving me a stroke... Wat?
An increased exposure to radiation something brings one extra fingers, toes, limbs, etc, and since base-10 was useful due to the number of fingers we used to have, which was 10. However, at a certain point of time, the number of people who have 10 fingers will decrease, due to increased exposure to radiation, which might lead to the base-10 system being changed.
When radiation exposure levels increase (realistically), we get more health problems like skin cancer, not everyone suddenly changing body parts like that.
Besides, it would require something tremendous to change our "base-10" counting system. Not only is it ingrained in our culture worldwide for centuries, but it's practical and easy to use.
There is nothing inherently special about base-10. It just seems easy to use because we are used to it.
bruh... I really hope you're just a kid with a vivid phantasy.
Why would we change it though? We'd need to change way too much in order to do that. Just because the system started with fingers, doesn't mean fingers is where it is now