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Base 12 - Numberphile

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Recreational & visual math

What it is

Numberphile's James Grime makes the case for base 12 (dozenal) over base 10, showing how twelve's many divisors make arithmetic and everyday fractions easier.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as the accessible overview of the dozenal system whenever base 12 or the 12 times table comes up.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “I suggest anyone reading this to also watch this video”

    Numberphile on the merits of base 12

    rezashirazian, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “Is there any point to the 12 times table?”

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Topics: dozenal, duodecimal, number bases, numberphile, arithmetic

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