Every base is base 10 - Lemmy.World

Can 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.

50 years? I bet we couldn’t even agree on how to write “11” & “12” on such short notice. (See: date format, encoding, etc)
we could just go with the hexidecimal way and go with A,B,C for 10,11 and 12
No, 12 in base 12 is 10, not C. But yes, 10 can be A and 11 can be B
Dude’s out here trying to get us to use base 13.

Why not?

Why not use a large prime as the base?

Ahh yes, let’s introduce floating point rounding errors for one half. Sounds fun.