Morning folks! Today we continue in Headlong-Into-Dystopia mode in the gopherhole with some files about the UK Home Office consultation: "New legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies". Fun for one and all - until you get caught. I'm ordering my Guido mask as soon as possible.

Also, I found a couple of issues of the Dozenal Society of America: one can never have too many number bases say I.

Visit https://petergarner.net/#gopher-latest today and tomorrow, thereafter via your gopher client app.

#gopher #GopherProtocol #Dozenal

The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf]

https://dozenal.org/drupal/sites_bck/default/files/DuodecimalBulletinIssue551.pdf

#HackerNews #Duodecimal #Bulletin #Vol55 #Year1209 #pdf #Dozenal #Math #History

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

When you design UI, you tend to lean toward the “base 12 is superior in every way!” camp. Yes, even better than base 16.

Why? Because: ½ ⅓ ¼! How often do you need a one-fifth of an icon to do something? But half? A third? Exactly!

(“Dozenal” sounds terrible, though.)

#duodecimal #base12 #dozenal

🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮

What countries use Cavalier when #PlayingCards? Noticed that a playing card suit in #Unicode has four face cards . In the US, the face #cards are Jack, Queen, King. In some countries, the face cards are Jack, Cavalier, King. I don't think anyone uses all four.

I bought a #K6T deck (thegamecrafter·com/games/k6t) last year. Six suits, in six different colors: Hearts, Diamonds; Spades, Clubs; Stars, Moons. Twenty cards per suit. A suit runs

0·1·2·3·4·5·6·7·8·9·10·11·12·J·C·B·T·Q·K·A.

That's Zero for Joker, the Ace _not_ doing double duty as One, and six faceless "court" cards – Jack, Cavalier, Bishop, Tower, Queen, King – represented by chess pieces. (You can buy an extension pack with traditional face cards.)

I bought the #Dozenal extension pack instead. It replaces "ten, eleven, twelve" with "dek, el, dō" and continues with dō-one (dozen-plus-one) through two-dō (two dozen).

That's ninety more cards, though since there's overlap (10·11·12 = X·E·10), the total is 120+90-18=192, 186 without Jokers. Not that I play often, maybe a quarterly game of solitaire while listening to an audioplay. (Dek and el characters, if your typeface is up for it: ↊↋.)

why does this video feel like it was written specifically for me

the best way to count
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDaEVcwIJM

#binary #seximal #dozenal #janMisali #base2 #base6 #base12

Fun fact: some people are unironicly trying to replace decimal with doudeci-‽ sorry I mean dozenal
So 10 = 12... 🤔... one zero = twelve
I'm using words because þey never managed to agree on a standard set of symbols & how/if to disambiguate from decimal: https://dozenal.org/drupal/sites_bck/default/files/DuodecimalBulletinIssue4a2_0.pdf

Personally, I prefer base 10(10 in base 10(in base ...🤔))

Anyways, remember τ is ðe true circle constant 😎

#math #linguistics #cursed #pi #reform #dozenal #BeÐeChaŋeYouWantToSee