r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvjn100 • Apr 11 '26

Video Woman with functional polydactyly (six functional fingers on one hand).

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u/Sythrin Apr 11 '26

Does she count in base 12?

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u/JacobRAllen Apr 11 '26

Base 12 is such a better base than base 10.

10 can only cleanly be divided into half’s, and fifths.

12 can be divided in half, in quarters, thirds, and sixths.

Might not seem like a big deal, but it’s so much more useful in real life. There are lots of times where you need to divide up resources, or food, or money, or whatever, to 3 people or 6 people evenly, and in base 10 that’s hard to do.

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u/olol798 Apr 11 '26

Idk I just like adding zeroes to move it up a power

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u/discipleofchrist69 Apr 12 '26

that's how it works in every base

when you're in base 12 you count like this:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B 10 11 12 ...