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Base 12 - Numberphile
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Numberphile's James Grime makes the case for base 12 (dozenal) over base 10, showing how twelve's many divisors make arithmetic and everyday fractions easier.
HN uses it as the accessible overview of the dozenal system whenever base 12 or the 12 times table comes up.
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