30 May
2010
30 May
'10
12:12 p.m.
You mean number of finger _plus thumbs_. If it was the
number of fingers
only, we'd use octal, which IMHO is a much nicer number system.
[Base 8 is just like base 10 really, if you're missing 2 fingers -- Tom
Lehrer]
-tony
There was a system from the ancient world using the segments of the
fingers to count with the thumb as a marker.
Each finger of the hand has 3 segments, so 3 X 4 =12
two hands, so 12 X 12 =144
Maybe this was the basis of a dozen.
Roger