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What about the children?

Rather than presenting a rhetorical device, I’m genuinely wondering what would happen to math literacy rates when switching to something like base 12.

It isn’t a question about specialist use cases, because we already apply plenty of specialist systems as needed, such as binary and hexadecimal in computing.

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I've always wondered this as well. In one case, math literacy among the Inuits actually went up significantly when they allowed them to start using their native base 20 system school[1]. Although, they also designed a new system of iconic numerals, so I think that was what caused the increase in math test scores (since you can do arithmetic visually with an iconic numeral system).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

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