realitistaEvery base is base 10
WandererCan we all use base 12?
It will be a shower if shit for like 50 years but then it will be better for pretty much everyone.
Some people argue that it would be harder to count on your fingers but we could just surgically give everyone more?
Billions of years ago, our collective great-great-great-[several million more]-grandparent evolved a fin with a five bone structure. That idiot didn’t know anything about common denominators, and now we’re stuck with this numeric system that can’t divide things into thirds without causing issues.
Vertebrates appeared less than a billion years ago.