this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
1080 points (95.3% liked)

Math Memes

1995 readers
8 users here now

Memes related to mathematics.

Rules:
1: Memes must be related to mathematics in some way.
2: No bigotry of any kind.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Huh, that actually makes some sense. How would it be written, I guess spoken you could easily go "eleven dozen and seven", presumably you would need another symbol for 10/11. Write it as B7 if you wanted to use A/B similar to how you would use A-F with hexadecimal.

Probably take some time to get used to it from being used to using decimal.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago

probably the way we used to do it before we got arabic numerals, with knuckle counts and long hundreds

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The "eleven dozen and seven" is functionally no different from "One hundred and thirty-nine." We'd just have 2 more characters than we do now.

We even have a name for a third digit in base-12. 12 dozen is a "gross".

The Babylonians used base 60, which is neat because it cleanly divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30, whereas base 10 has just 2 and 5.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but who's got the taller tower?? Checkmate Babylonians

it depends on whether or not "eleven" would be base ten 11, or base 12 eleven.