> > I got to fooling around with that, and before I knew it, I figured that base-12 would be the easiest, seeing as it's divisible by not only 2, but also 6, 3, AND 4.
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> Why 10? It's a bit impractical. I don't remember who it was who had a base-8 system (Arabic?), but I can't help thinking how much easier programming would be. Actually you *can* program in base-8, but you also have to get your mind used to it. And that's maybe the hardest part.

I think it's interesting that whenever we write "base 2," "base 8," "base 10," "base 12," or "base 16," we still write it in base 10. All of these, if written in the bases they describe, would look the same: "base 10." The only one I can think of that would be different is base 1.

It also seems strange to me that the first two are written with numbers they don't even have.

gab"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, lots"by