”Oh so they have six fingers then, if they use dozimals instead of decimals?”
Well, maybe. I have considered it. But… you see I can do this even with five fingers? Actually this is an applied 4-base, where part of the fingers track ones, and part track ”tens” (=fours). I can count to eleven with one hand. And the numerical glyphs could even be a depiction of this. Maybe they have five fingers, but two of them are opposable and it’s more natural for them to view them as 2 + 3?
#dozenal #dozimal

So what is the end result of all of this Dozenal exploration?

When I give a handout, making something like a dozenal clock gives a sense of familiar AND being in another world. Other worlds, even alternate WW2 settings have a different history. In this case, the Romans counted with base 12 instead of Base 10.

#Dozenal #WorldBuilding

For the curious, I would do dozenal Roman numerals as follows:

I - 1
V - 4
F - 8
X - 12
L - 48 (X * V or 12 * 4)
Θ - 96 (V * F or 12 * 8)
C - 144 (X * X or 12 * 12)
D - 576 (4 * 144)
Z - 1152 (8 * 144)
M - 1728 (12 * 144)

2023 MMXXIII Roman Num
2023 MCCVII Dozenal Rom

#Dozenal

I found a python program that will generate dek and el (10 and 11) by rotating 2 and 3 and placing them in the appropriate Unicode location. (U218A and U219B respectively)

I have found a new toy and I should probably be stopped.

#Dozenal

Randomly pondering dozenal numbers again. In case you are wondering, 0 through 11 would look something like this:

0123456789↊↋

This came from wondering "What if the Romans used a dozenal system?"

A discussion on this from 2015 can be found here:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/dozensonline/dozenal-analogs-for-roman-numerals-t1326.html

#Dozenal

Sometimes you see posts with progress bars in characters, not an image, like

▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░ 21% Year Progress

█████░░░░░ 54% WordVita

You'll see they're not all that precise, usually only noting the tens digit and not representing the ones digit in the bar. I was wondering how one could access intra-block precision, and came up with the notion of dominoes. As in

🂋🂋🂋🁥🁣 🁣🁣🁣🁣🁣 32%

🂋🂋🂋🂋🂋 🂋🁽🁢🁢🁢 68%

Though naturally this works better if one uses dozenal:

🂓🂓🂓 🂓🂓🂓 🂓🂓🂓 🂓🂓🂅
(spaces for counting clarity)
EX per gross, or 142/144 decimal, or 99%

(Using X for ten instead of the preferred turned-digit-two and
E for eleven instead of turned-digit-three, since the preferred characters are often not in the fonts people use. See: ↋↊ )

I suspect the dominoes will often be too small for people to make out the pips, but I occupied myself for an hour, so that's a win.

#progress #progressbar #dozenal #dominoes #unicode

… Pero entre más me familiarizo con esa forma de medir el #Tiempo , menos práctica me va pareciendo 😞.
Por eso me va pareciendo cada vez más razonable es la opción de adoptar el sistema #Duodecimal para todos los cálculos, porque es mucho más versátil para dividir y multiplicar.
El problema es que este es el camino con más dificultades: habría que cambiar toda la forma en que el mundo se ha acostumbrado a trabajar 🙈.
¿Ustedes que opinan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
#Dozenal

Didn't think I'd find any podcasts discussing the #dozenal system of counting (which is one of my pet hobbies) but hey I did!

https://soundcloud.com/user-848319738/4-the-dozenalist-manifesto-or?utm_source=www.digitspodcast.com&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-848319738%252F4-the-dozenalist-manifesto-or