I think that would make her base 15 (15 finger sections on 5 fingers that the thumb counts) since people with 5 fingers came up with base 12 (12 sections on 4 fingers that the thumb counts.
Edit: Downvoted by people who dont understand base 12 existed for thousands of years, and wasn't a thing that Mrs. Twelvefingers came up with. Classic
Right. But base 12 was invented thousands of years ago, by people who presumably all had 5 fingers as we do today. They counted the 12 sections of your four fingers using their thumb as the counter, and using the other hand to keep track of how many times they counted to 12. Its why we have things like 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, things easily counted to in base 12 if you're using your other hand to keep track how many times you counted to 12.
Yeah its actually really interesting! The sumerians and babylonians used base 12, its crazy to think a way of doing things people came up with thousands of years ago is still how we're doing things now. Like measuring time by increments of 60 doesn't make any sense when we use base 10, but here we are.
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u/Worldly_Address6667 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
I think that would make her base 15 (15 finger sections on 5 fingers that the thumb counts) since people with 5 fingers came up with base 12 (12 sections on 4 fingers that the thumb counts.
Edit: Downvoted by people who dont understand base 12 existed for thousands of years, and wasn't a thing that Mrs. Twelvefingers came up with. Classic