migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down12
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squaremegane-kun@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoIn base 12 (using T for ten and E for eleven), we can have the following: 10:00am => 0T:00 11:00am => 0E:00 10:00pm => 1T:00 11:00pm => 1E:00 Boom! The second digit of the hour (in 24 hour notation) does exactly what AM and PM does!
In base 12 (using T for ten and E for eleven), we can have the following:
Boom! The second digit of the hour (in 24 hour notation) does exactly what AM and PM does!