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If humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kind of. Although they did use base 60, it was largely based on a simpler, base 10, system, like we do woth our clocks, so it seems that they had a base 10, and then developed base 60 to help math