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