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by dempedempe 788 days ago
Yes. I think people would be a lot better at arithmetic if we had a larger base or, more importantly, iconic numerals so that arithmetic can be done visually as in Mayan numerals or Kaktovik numerals[1] (both base 20).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals