I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

    you can still use your fingers. it’s how we got our standard of time. Back then they counted the joints in our fingers minus thumb. 4 sets of 3 for our four fingers and 3 joints per finger. Then 5 sets of 12 to make 60. as they would use the fingers on the other hand to track how many times they counted to 12.

    • teft
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      310 months ago

      My favorite system like this is the Oksapmin counting system. They use a base 27 system. It’s based upon counting upper body parts.

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        10 months ago

        The Babylons had a great counting system using the segments of their fingers

        Thought I prefer the binary counting system