Re: Base-12 logic
Nyperold, on host 150.176.96.2
Thursday, February 22, 2001, at 12:51:00
Re: Base-12 logic posted by Wolfspirit on Thursday, February 22, 2001, at 06:25:38:
> I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before about Base 12, but I'll say it anyway.... > > I'm in full agreement that base-10 is not as practical nor useful as base-12, considering 12 has four divisors and 10 has only two divisors. Also, God in the Bible seems to promote the superior concept of defining things by units of Twelve (though I really can't understand why Seven is also a desirable number representing 'perfect' completion.)
As I understand it, reckoning from the POV of a human(as well as other living beings)...
1-4: The 4 cardinal directions.
5-6: Up and Down.
7: One's own center.
If I can get to my copy of "The Mystery of the Menorah and the Hebrew Alphabet", I can perhaps explain it better.
Interesting Query: If we used a system for which 10 is neither a factor nor a multiple(say, 7), would we still count on our fingers the same way?
Nyper"31 base 7"old > Wolf ";)" spirit
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