Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Decimal System Is Good, The Dozenal system better.

Numbers form an important part of our society. If you want to become anyone or buy anything you need to have a basic understanding of numbers and math. From a young age we're made familiar with a numeral system called the decimal system. Everybody knows we count from 0-9 and an extra digit is added, landing us at 10. The way we count from 0-9 is called the decimal system. Some of you may not know any different, but there's an alternative, a better one.

The dozenal system doesn't know 10 number, it's knows another two. The A and the B. This is best explained by a count from 1 to 30

123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
123456789AB101112131415161718191A1B20212223242526

So, this may all seem very unnecesary, until you start to do math with these numbers. For example you've got one apple, and you've got to devide it between three people. In the decimal system you would get a weird number .3333333333 etc. In the dozenal system the outcome would be mutch different you'd get .4. This is just one example but there are more examples. with the decimal system we can evenly devide by 1, 2, 5 and 10. The dozenal system knows two more: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12.

With serious math it wouldn't make much of a difference. But in day to day life the dozenal system makes much more sence.

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