MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago6 January 1988sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1136
arrow-up1136image6 January 1988sh.itjust.worksMrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoFurther aren’t there a handful of cultures that work on something other than base 10 like Sumerians using base 60?
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYep, although I can’t speak about the current ones (if any). Separately, I wonder if the thirty-twelve is also an early reference to Hitchhiker’s?
Further aren’t there a handful of cultures that work on something other than base 10 like Sumerians using base 60?
Yep, although I can’t speak about the current ones (if any).
Separately, I wonder if the thirty-twelve is also an early reference to Hitchhiker’s?