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**Suvaxal** · 11-20-2008, 03:04 AM

It's important to realize that while, NOW, we know that 16 is probably the most useful to us (in a digital age and all), the folks creating this system may not have been thinking of digital, or boolean, or anything like that; they were thinking of counting things. Thinking of how it might have come about is very important, and I suspect (as Lul explains) 12 is the most likely to have come about in this manner (or, perhaps, 60 ?).

I do like the suggestion for different groups having different bases, though - that's a good one. You could have the Asherites with base 8 (16 is probably too many digits), and the Thuites with base 6 or 12, and have them spar regularly

11-20-2008, 03:04 AM	#26
Suvaxal Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 515 Senior Member	It's important to realize that while, NOW, we know that 16 is probably the most useful to us (in a digital age and all), the folks creating this system may not have been thinking of digital, or boolean, or anything like that; they were thinking of counting things. Thinking of how it might have come about is very important, and I suspect (as Lul explains) 12 is the most likely to have come about in this manner (or, perhaps, 60 ?). I do like the suggestion for different groups having different bases, though - that's a good one. You could have the Asherites with base 8 (16 is probably too many digits), and the Thuites with base 6 or 12, and have them spar regularly
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