Our current system of
decimal or
base ten numbering is a
kludge.
Ten is an awkward number. If you divide it by
two, all you get for your troubles is
five, and
five is of no interest to anybody but
Robert Anton Wilson. The only other number by which
ten is
divisible is
five, which just gets you right back where you started.
Twelve is much cooler! You can
factor the hell out of it!
Ten is
strictly from hunger.
Have you ever been at a
restaurant with two friends and tried to
divvy up the check?
I rest my case!
I have to admit that eight-
bit bytes don't map onto
duodecimal any better than onto
decimal, but it's no worse either.
Hex will always be with us, and that's just fine.
Hex is cool, as far as it goes; but
duodecimal rules.
Duodecimal also gives us a round number of
Apostles, which might come in handy some time.