@Doctor_Roo
We changed the wrong thing.
Instead of changing our money from sensible base-twelve and twenty to stupid base-ten we should have changed our entire number system to base-twelve (or sixty) and waited for the rest of the world to catch up. :-)
(The original 50p coins were great though.)
#Duodecimal #money #maths #NewMoney #OldMoney #NumberBase

This is from the Font "Tengwar Grotesk" that I am developing and designing.

This is Tolkien's Elvish (tengwar) numeral system.

I find the use of many dots rather ugly. I do not see any easy solution.
The dots of the duodecimal system are set on different line making the eye go up and down.

Using the dots is best left to only when absolutely necessary and instead add the lines over or under the number looks better, in my view.

What do you think? Any advice?

#tolkien #tengwar #duodecimal

An important lesson for all you tentoes who don't know how bases work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nC8J6YXqdo
#mathematics #schoolhouseRock #duodecimal

Little Twelvetoes - Schoolhouse Rock

YouTube

It would be nice if I could get 100 followers before arriving in Amsterdam by mid-July. 😎 👍

Duodecimal Elvish Math Numbers.
They look way cooler than the actual:

U+218A ↊
U+218B ↋

don't you agree?

#tolkien #duodecimal

I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).

Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishtypography #duodecimal

My work on the typography of the Tengwar.

Not only did Tolkien imagine the Elvish letters, punctuation, and various symbols, abbreviations, but also all the numbers and even more, since he decided that the Elves (and Dwarves) used also the duodecimal system.

In the center, the number 12 (10) in duodecimal. And below, Tolkien's text explaining it.
This is my first attempt; I'm not entirely satisfied.

#tolkien #tengwar #duodecimal

@mdione @infobeautiful
TBH my personal preference is to scrap the idiotic decimal number system and move to base twelve. 🙂
#maths #number #duodecimal #dozenal

look, I would actually want to learn more about the duodecimal system if there would be youtube/peertube videos about basic math (+, -, ×, ÷) about it.

#dozenal #duodecimal

Just as another reason metric and base ten are inferior.

If deserts are divided into 12 than you can share easily for a family of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12.

#duodecimal #dozenal