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A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time (metric-time.com)
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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Ancient central Americans used a base 12 number system and counted on their fingers using finger segments (3 per finger, 4 fingers, 12 segments). Makes fractions way more intuitive