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“If we evolved from a Devonian fish that had twelve phalanges, then we’d all be doing base-twelve arithmetic, and base-ten arithmetic would be considered only by mathematicians.”
— Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, ed. by Ann Druyan.
If I did my math correctly, 6,000 in base-12 is 3,580.
Well, that’s not nearly as impressive!
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