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by eddieroger
4535 days ago
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The only special thing about Decimal and Base 10 is that we have 10 fingers (for the most part, exceptions exist). If we had 12, then 1/24th of a day would make sense, because it would be twice our then-normal Base 12 system. It is evolutionarily arbitrary. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC8J6YXqdo |
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