Totally crazy !!

Interesting analogy, I'll stick to my 10 digits though thank you very much

Well what if u subtract 2 from ur fingers? U cant cut of parts of ur finger or at least u wouldnt be able to count that often

Nevertheless intersting video.

Now do a fifth in Duodezimal. It's 0.24972497....

I know a dude that has 6 fingers. But just in one hand He was a goalkeeper

You can't start telling us about a system that makes more "sense" and then tell us that the imperial system is better than the metric one. That just doesn't work.

It is half past Duo. time for bed.

Who knew Lee Evans' twin was a mathematical guru

"There are people who think there should be 12 digits."

Yeah, I'm one of them .

#4 Or you can be Babylonian and have base 60 and be able to have a nice division against 5.

It's good for exercise brain :-)

100% agree with #1

Newsflash: any serious programmer would tell you that they are using 16-base numbers daily (called hexadecimal system). What's that special with duodecimal? Do-do...

Numbers are as limiting as the measure of time or the idea of past, present and future. I'd say lets get rid of all of it!

I think I stay ignorant in this topic. I assume if I would be risenin this system I would be a fan of it. I am an engineer, I like too to dived numbers with 3 and 4 with out some decimals. So what do I (we) do? We make lenghts who easaly devides with twelve. Steps or elements with size of 1200, 2400, 3600, 4800, 6000mm and so on are common to see.

By the way this man has huge eye pupils

#16 yes he does he might be on drugs, especially since they don't get smaller when he looks into the camera which ha a light on

I think that 100% should be replaced by 2520%, meaning that 1 = 2520%.
The reason being that 2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by 1-10.
Very convenient if you think about it.
No more 33.3333...% and so on.

#14 That would depend on what they do. I think base2 (binary) would still be the system of choice for programmers... even though base16 (hexadecimal) is widely used for color definition (god save CSS coders ^^)...

So let's do a short summary:
- By narrator's admission, this new system would do (close to) nothing for mathematics in general;
- All advantages would impact pretty much only elementary school kids;
- Two new symbols would have to be introduced and distributed (talk about messing up ASCII);
- One of the newly introduced symbols would be constantly mistaken for our favorite variable "x", while the other one would collide with the small epsilon, which is also employed in mathematics (most common used in calculus);

Somehow, this system appears to focus greatly on teaching basic mathematics to kids, which is an amazing thought, but somewhat disregards other levels/branches of mathematics, defeating the whole purpose of numeric system choice...

Very interesting, on a side note, this guy looks like he's popped a couple of pills

@#4 Actually one-fifth is equal to 0.24 in this system. 1/5 = 12/60 = 2.4/12

Quite impressive. It all comes down to what we're taught is "right". It doesn't mean it's the right or the wrong way, it's what we know and what we were taught. Everything "evolves", even the way we think.

In Poland was a 12-base system:
12 - called TUZIN
5x12 = 60 - called KOPA
12x12 = 144 - called GROS

in USA too
1 FOOT = 12 INCH

The next day they'll want us to drive on the left side.

#21 no dude, #4 is right. you cant convert lover part of the fraction and leave the upper part, thats an insignificant math flaw. you may check it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal .belowly there is a huge table about this.
by the way the whole argument is not so necessary to contuniue.
computers thinks binary is better for them and they convert each calculation for us! there is no problem. if someone thinks this is easier, i dont mind them using it as long as they convert it to rest of the humankind. i cant imagine some one making his homework whit it without converting, definete F would the result. end of the argument.

In the real world, smart people use centimeters and kilograms, not inches and pounds You just add a 0 at the end with a metric system ... what is simpler than that?

I use base 1.2, I use my penis and testicles to count.

ten is fine with me

#26 And how many of those countries with "smart people" have put men on the moon? It is all in what you grew-up being taught.

ill just go with what i know thats hard heheheh i like the dodo though dodo=breast in our language hahaha