#base12 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #base12, aggregated by home.social.
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When you design UI, you tend to lean toward the “base 12 is superior in every way!” camp. Yes, even better than base 16.
Why? Because: ½ ⅓ ¼! How often do you need a one-fifth of an icon to do something? But half? A third? Exactly!
(“Dozenal” sounds terrible, though.)
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why does this video feel like it was written specifically for me
the best way to count
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Wow! There is a Dozenal Society of America dedicated to research and education about base 12 calculations. I had no idea. It makes some sense though to make a base that has lots of factors so it is easier to divide. 12 has 1,2,3,4, the four smallest factors. https://dozenal.org/index.html
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Can someone calculate
(e ^ π) - π
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From base-12 to base-60 and everything in between, moving beyond our own base-10 number system can spice up anyone's worldbuilding.
Read more at my blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2021/08/12/worldbuilding-number-systems/
This post's featured image is "Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment" by Adamas Nemesis, a.k.a. me!
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