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Old 01-11-2018, 09:58 AM   #38530
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Originally Posted by Sarlacc View Post
Octal? Please explain.

A friend of mine once argued we should be using base-6 for many reasons, one being we could use each hand for a digit and thus count to 35d with two hands.
I chose 8 because its not nearly so complicated, easier for just about anyone to get. People can tell their thumbs apart, they're not even called fingers. At least in English. So you have 8 fingers and two thumbs. You could get 32 but my guess is that is again too confusing, so I settled for 24.
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