On: A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers

[simonh]

I’m convinced base 12 would be far superior to base 10. It has four common factors: 6, 4, 3 and 2, rather than just one. This would make handling common whole number fractions in place value form much easier. It’s also easy to count to 12 on one hand - just point to your finger bones with your thumb. That way with two hands you can count all the way up to 24 (in base 10 equivalent).

[JoeAltmaier → simonh]

Me too! And telling if a large number was a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 6 would be trivial - just check the last digit!

[lanstin → JoeAltmaier]

Still only two prime factors. I really wanted bass thirty - negative powers of 2 3 and 5 all terminate.