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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

144 is a dozen dozen, also known as a gross. I like it because it's got so damn many factors, it can be divided in all kinds of ways. I think we should switch to the dozenal (base 12) system, because it would make multiplication and division easier.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Base 12 is nice. It feels managably small (while remaining a super highly composite number. The next super highly composite number (which I also like) is 60.

    2520 is the first number divisible by 1-10, but that's a bit much.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How do you feel about hours/minutes/days, degrees(for measuring angles) and pre-decimilozation currency?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Pentadozenal (sextadecimal) time is very cool and sexy, same with angles. But I have no patience for nickels and shillings, that stuff is bullshit.

    We should standardise measurements to the dozenal metric system. A mometer should be a dozen dozen dozen meters (1000 meters in dozenal).

    A circle should have 260 degrees. That's two gross and six dozen, pronounced as two-gro six-do.

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