#base12 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #base12, aggregated by home.social.
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Photo by Lysander Yuen on Unsplash Introduction It’s an open secret in many workplaces: users pretend to understand security protocols they don’t actually grasp. They nod through training, skim documentation, and give vague affirmatives when asked if they’ve configured MFA or...
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What Chan Thomas, Planetary Resets, and Sacred Math Reveal About Our Forgotten Origins Photo by Mishaal Zahed on Unsplash Introduction Some truths are too volatile to erase — so they redact them instead. In 1963, Chan Thomas wrote The Adam and Eve Story — a chilling reconstruction of...
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDaEVcwIJM -
why does this video feel like it was written specifically for me
the best way to count
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDaEVcwIJM -
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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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
in #duodecimal for me? 😇 -
Can someone calculate
(e ^ π) - π
in #duodecimal for me? 😇
