@migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years agoIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.message-square24fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.@migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squarecircuitfarmerlinkfedilink9•edit-22 years agoThere’s also evidence of an early base-12 system in use for some Indo-Europeans – it’s likely why the English morphology doesn’t become compositional until 13: Ten (not compositional) Eleven (not compositional) Twelve (not compositional) Thirteen (related to three-ten) Fourteen (relates to four-ten) Etc.
minus-square@mySFWaccount@lemmy.calinkfedilink1•2 years agoCool! I never really thought of it that way.
There’s also evidence of an early base-12 system in use for some Indo-Europeans – it’s likely why the English morphology doesn’t become compositional until 13:
Ten (not compositional)
Eleven (not compositional)
Twelve (not compositional)
Thirteen (related to three-ten)
Fourteen (relates to four-ten)
Etc.
Cool! I never really thought of it that way.