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CronoDAS comments on On Pi day, we eat pie; On Tau day, we eat Taoists? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 March 2011 01:13:57AM *  3 points [-]

Base 10 is a rather awkward choice for arithmetic, being only divisible by 2 and 5, but we're kind of stuck with it...

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 16 March 2011 01:18:26AM 3 points [-]

I totally agree with the first part, and slightly disagree with the last part. If I could, I would give everybody an extra two fingers and cause the world to be converted to base twelve. Time notation would be less annoying, there would be more available factors, and everybody would have two more fingers.