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by protomyth 3608 days ago
One of the Native American tribes went with base-8 because they counted the areas between the fingers because you can haul bottles with those.

I too wish base-12 were used more. Given how much a penny is worth, getting rid of decimal money and substituting a base-12 coin would solve a lot of pizza / dinner cost split problems.