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a better way to count

jan Misali · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Recreational & visual mathPure mathematics

What it is

jan Misali presents an humorous but earnest case for counting in base 6 (seximal) instead of base 10 or 12, comparing the arithmetic advantages of each.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a funny, convincing take on number bases whenever dozenal or base 6 comes up.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video convinced me that base 6 would be even better for simple pen-and-paper math”

    Convincing case for base 6 arithmetic

    ar-nelson, 2020-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Roman Finger Counting”

  2. “One of the best videos of number-base related comedy.”

    Funny comparison of decimal, dozenal and seximal

    jodrellblank, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system”

  3. “has an interesting video on Dozenal and "Seximal" (base 6) number systems.”

    Interesting take on dozenal and base 6

    cjhveal, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “My Love Affair with Dozens (1972) [pdf]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: base 6, seximal, dozenal, numeral systems, math

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