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Romans thought in base 10 (X,C,M) a bit strange to refer to them.

But I would happily adopt a base 12 number system with base 12 units. Let’s say we use X for 10 and Ǝ for 11, 134 would be 1Ǝ, 24 hour clock a 20 (base 12) hour clock

As a new father, I have toyed with the idea of raising my child with base 16.

throughout my life I planned on teaching my kid(s) this one created word for the state of being not-thirsty. So in German, there is 'satt' which means 'not hungry', but for thirst, there is no corresponding word and its one of these urban memes that the corresponding word for not-thirsty would be 'sitt'.

Now that I have a kid, my kid has not learned the word 'sitt'. :-)

Anyway, I wouldn't have made the news as this dad did: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229808/Linguist-re...

What's wrong with quenched or sated?

Does not exist as such in German.

Ah yes, the global conspiracy to get people to...checks notes...occasionally use a pocket calculator. Very socialist indeed.

A system merely suitable for the human scale will never enable you to reach beyond.

Fractions are good for your brain and inherently more accurate.

A decimal value is just a form of approximate, decimal fractions.

Also fractions of metric values should be even better for the brain, if stuff does not cancel out as easily. so if you want to make the argument that not using a calculator is inherently better, its even better to not use a calculator using the metric system.

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