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soren
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posted August 16, 2014 06:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for soren     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
they will see how flawed it might be? like why do we choose to only have 9 original numbers. Like for numerological personalities there is only 9 main personalities. But maybe there should be 12. Maybe 12 is a more proper base. Why did we choose to wrap around at 10. Maybe 10 shouldnt be a 1 and 0 but it should be its own number. same with 11 and 12. But who knows

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Randall
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posted August 17, 2014 02:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think the Ancients had it right.

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PlutoSurvivor
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posted August 27, 2014 09:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PlutoSurvivor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Counting systems were based on the number of fingers we have, hence base 10. the mayans had base 20 because they didn't wear shoes so they could count their fingers and toes. The Babylonians counted according to time, base 60 which is really how the duodecimal system works, based on time.

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Randall
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posted August 28, 2014 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good points.

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Randall
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posted August 30, 2014 01:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Didn't know about base 60.

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