[mids_hn]

While we're trying to change the status quo in mathematics around the world, let's also all switch to the World Calendar and start using Base 12.

[p1mrx]

You could start by calling it base twelve (because 10 would be too confusing.)

[lebuffon]

Or to really obfuscate called it base 10 (in base 12) :))

[Hizonner]

60 is a better base than 12. Even 30 would be better.

And we should drop the stupid Earth-centric metric system and go to some kind of Planck units.

[p1mrx]

Base sixty would be much worse for humans. There are too many digits to memorize, and the multiplication table is enormous. It does give you a factor of 5, but 5 is only so common because we use base ten.

Base twelve is better than thirty because you can represent 1/4 (0.3) and 3/4 (0.9) with a single digit.

[dTal]

We do, for physics. Very often c is treated as 1. The "meter" is really just a conveniently human-scaled unit, equivalent to the "degree" in trigonometry.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

> 60 is a better base than 12.

And it proved itself useful on this Earth for probably longer than the decimal system.