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**replicajoy** · 11-20-2008, 05:20 AM

Originally posted by snoopy369
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 ?). yeah, 60.

danS knows his history

the elites of the society slowly abandoned it when an increasing amount of people needed to use numbers and dumbed it down by dividing it with 5, to base 12

base 16 sucks, not dividable with 3 or 6, much harder to memorize in common use

11-20-2008, 05:20 AM	#29
replicajoy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 334 Senior Member	Originally posted by snoopy369 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 ?). yeah, 60. danS knows his history the elites of the society slowly abandoned it when an increasing amount of people needed to use numbers and dumbed it down by dividing it with 5, to base 12 base 16 sucks, not dividable with 3 or 6, much harder to memorize in common use
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