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Do you know of any society or culture that is currently using a number system that is NOT base 10? If so do you have any info or links about them?
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Do you know of any society or culture that is currently using a number system that is NOT base 10? If so do you have any info or links about them?
Yours is; for time it uses sexigesimal.

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The United States of America.

Ounces and pounds, feet and inches, miles and yards, the list goes on and on.

Us poor Europeans get little practice in non-decimal arithmetic any more - although at the age of 10 I was delighted that the mathematics curriculum was no longer to be wall-to-wall arithmetic in non-decimal measures ...
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Do a search on: Dozenal Society.

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