• p1mrx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 年前

    if we all started counting in base12 too

    You could start by calling it twelve instead of 12.

    • duffman@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 年前

      To keep things as simple/intuitive as they are today, we’d need two new symbols to represent the additional numbers. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,§,∆,10

      Of course it would be confusing as all hell for anyone alive today.

      • stewsters@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 年前

        With hexadecimal we typically use a-f for the remaining numbers. We probably would use something like this for base 12:

        012345679ab

        Of course everyone knows the correct base to use is 2. Or as we call it, base 10.

        Actually, come to think of it, it would always be 10 in the base that it is.