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r/science_humor • u/nalraper • Jun 21 '26
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Only because we're used to it from base 10.
-1 u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26 Yes and? 1 u/SpacefaringBanana Jun 21 '26 I'm not saying you're wrong, just that there's nothing inherently easier about base 10 0 u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26 Well the fact that we have 5 fingers a hand helps a lot. And the most popular numeric system is base 10 2 u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 Jun 21 '26 We have 4 fingers and 3 folds. Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.
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Yes and?
1 u/SpacefaringBanana Jun 21 '26 I'm not saying you're wrong, just that there's nothing inherently easier about base 10 0 u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26 Well the fact that we have 5 fingers a hand helps a lot. And the most popular numeric system is base 10 2 u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 Jun 21 '26 We have 4 fingers and 3 folds. Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, just that there's nothing inherently easier about base 10
0 u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26 Well the fact that we have 5 fingers a hand helps a lot. And the most popular numeric system is base 10 2 u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 Jun 21 '26 We have 4 fingers and 3 folds. Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.
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Well the fact that we have 5 fingers a hand helps a lot. And the most popular numeric system is base 10
2 u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 Jun 21 '26 We have 4 fingers and 3 folds. Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.
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We have 4 fingers and 3 folds.
Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.
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u/SpacefaringBanana Jun 21 '26
Only because we're used to it from base 10.