migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down111
arrow-up1166arrow-down1message-squareIf humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system.migvelio@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squarehoodlem@hoodlem.melinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI suppose we used our fingers, but if we would have used our number of hands/eyes/ears/etc we would have come up with binary.
I suppose we used our fingers, but if we would have used our number of hands/eyes/ears/etc we would have come up with binary.