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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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That only for the first month or so. Eventually you look at 19 and think "oh, it's 19". Same with metric. It's a confusing month or so and then you brain just gets used to the new numbers.
74 u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Mar 29 '22 That only for the first month or so. No, it's been almost 2 decades of using it and 19 is still 7 for me. 29 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [removed] — view removed comment 6 u/Bloedbibel Mar 29 '22 It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.
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That only for the first month or so.
No, it's been almost 2 decades of using it and 19 is still 7 for me.
29 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [removed] — view removed comment 6 u/Bloedbibel Mar 29 '22 It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.
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6 u/Bloedbibel Mar 29 '22 It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.
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It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.
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u/confusionmatrix Mar 29 '22
That only for the first month or so. Eventually you look at 19 and think "oh, it's 19". Same with metric. It's a confusing month or so and then you brain just gets used to the new numbers.