Why Base 12 is Better than Decimal

Why using base 12 could make our lives (slightly) easier.

[@avidaslan]

Wow! Base 12 has opened up my ability to do SO MANY THINGS with my OTHER HAND! This is the PEAK of humanity!

[@rayscotchcoulton]

Checking this out in 2022 after getting into base 12 for the first time! Great stuff!

[@ashesrockstotaldrama]

Your videos are really good, I wish you would do more!

[@TheNewGreenIsBlue]

You just earned a subscriber. This was the coolest non-nerdy explanation of base 12 ever.

[@makumanga9434]

Old video, but I still found it useful. I'm worldbuilding and making a language that counts in base 12 instead of ten, so stuff like this is cool to find

[@TexterBox]

WORLDBUILDER SPOTTED!! :D

[@kenyonj7957]

base 12 also works much better with music as there are 12 semitones in an octave. you can represent notes as numbers and play all over the fret-board in any key simply by adding

[@ashokchander3449]

Badass man. Hope you get out there and spread that energy and gospel. Truth

[@xvi1921]

Subscriber # 101 HERE... or... in dozenal... # 85! You are a great beatboxer, man. Mad skills.

[@ContentCreature24]

comedy teacher. let try to do more . fun lesson

[@kevin_dasilva]

had to check my playback speed for this one

[@zofirytusdaskwoque6572]

nice haircut man

[@SuperKamiRose]

please do more things like this.

[@myceliguy]

Love your shows and talent bro. fo sho el do

[@WhoAreIsraelites777]

thank you so much for this bro!

[@ParchitaFM]

you welcome brah!

[@emilsvahn5400]

this is great!!

[@laurabrown4673]

I like you. You're really funny! You should make another video about twelves!! Also, music works in twelve tones. That's another possible advantage...

[@bunz2023]

Thank you for waking me up!!!!

[@kaaiplayspiano7200]

5:56 The problem is it requires multiplication to know a number when you see it and most people learn how to count before they learn to multiply.

[@ori_art_haas]

your awesome. thanks haha i now (with your first video) started to learn base 12 math. i belive that if u learn a bit more editing and watch some ppopulare peoples videos on youtube ud get there 2. good luck!!

[@iananderson12796]

That Vlogbrothers reference

[@Diaming787]

We should all use base 12 :)

[@kamiltraczyk6735]

This is hilarious and informative... what sorcery is this?

[@zofirytusdaskwoque6572]

something very surreal about the way you count on your fingers!

[@MrKahrum]

Ey bro, can you show us. Counting by 5s or 7s in dozenal?

[@zoranhacker]

6:31 Nice! vlogbrothers :D

[@zulie79]

1,2,3,4,6,12

[@pepoop930]

You need more subs

[@hanifrayhanhakim8530]

I still use base dek.

[@nishkaarora6343]

HOW ARE YOU SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAJAHHAHAHA

[@isaaccool3183]

This make sense in imperial but what about metric

[@YamamotoTV2021]

Here is how the metric system would work in dozenal: Larger than a meter: 1 meter = 1 meter (of course) 1 unquameter = 12 meters ≈ 39.37 feet 1 biquameter = 144 meters ≈ 472.441 feet 1 triquameter = 1728 meters ≈ around 7.37% longer than a mile Smaller than a meter: 1 unciameter = 1/12 of a meter ≈ 8.3333 cm ≈ 3.28 inches 1 biciameter = 1/144 of a meter ≈ 0.006944 cm ≈ 0.2734 inches 1 triciameter = 1/1728 of a meter ≈ 0.05787 cm (about half a millimeter; not worth converting to inches)

[@isaaccool3183]

@@YamamotoTV2021 works for me

[@eev24eshmolikali]

I prefer Base Twelve numerology to Base Ten Numerology but also use this. I use also Base Thirty Numerology {{{{{{Aih'Yah = 10[30] when figured out in Base 12. - Aih'Yah is the name of the Ultimate DAity … 1M in Base 30 = 44{12} = 52(10) and 52 is a very important number}}}}}} and found some significant coincidences. It is very difficult to work with more than two bases so most of my work is in Base Dozenal and comparing with Base Ten. Of course, Base Eight and base Six are important, but it is extremely difficult to do much work in all these Bases along with Base Dozenal and Base Ten. 10{12} = Do, 11{12} = Do one, and so on.

[@AliTahreiSh]

Funny ending 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zofirytusdaskwoque6572]

but 5?

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Math teachers agree. Logic agrees. The sooner we convert to base 12, the easier and cheaper it will be.

[@pardwayne]

Are there duodecimal Roman numerals?

[@TheChugg11]

No

[@pinkponyofprey1965]

soundtrack played on a bass12

[@Sinom.]

doe dec... ahedron

[@zofirytusdaskwoque6572]

this video was uploaded on e/4/11xx

[@l3g10nw]

4/e/11xx month goes first

[@dara_1989]

so we should simply get completely new symbols for base 12 numerals ... that way we can learn both numerals without getting confused

[@Persun_McPersonson]

There's no reason to learn both, that would just be a hindrance. It's better to switch to base twelve entirely.

[@dara_1989]

@@Persun_McPersonson yes , no need to learn both ... new symbols r simply needed to stop confusing d two while learning n using ... same goes for hexa deci system , currently in use 👍

[@RecursiveTriforce]

The best base is 10 and base 11 is the worst and I think almost everyone would agree. With Base 10 I don't mean decimal.

[@YourAverageLink]

Base seventeen (that'd look like 15 in dozenal) is the worst

[@seemslikewater]

Easn lets start learn that :D i wonder if i could outcalculate (if thats even a word) my friends in school

[@annadryl3651]

1000 is "one moh"

[@Dusty_Moonpie]

You can't count to 156 on your hands using base 12. You can count to 110 ( one gros one doh)

[@Dusty_Moonpie]

***** I know what he meant, but he was not counting in decimal.

[@zlotnleo]

+Phillip Morrison Well, in binary you can count on your fingers to 1024 without messing with parts of the finger. Each one can be either straight or bent.

[@zlotnleo]

+TheJman0205 That is the problem for those who don't know this trick. Why should we care then?

[@astronomerninety-one9486]

TheJman0205 ahahaha nice binary middle finger joke :D

[@annadryl3651]

doh groh moh 12X is one groh two doh dek 100 is one groh 10 is one doн

[@kaaiplayspiano7200]

Eat pant? More like Eat spice.

[@YourAverageLink]

Base 6 is better than base 12. It handles fifths and sevenths better, and it is ridiculously easy to do arithmetic with. But, 12 is still better than 10. There are always tradeoffs, and to me, the length problem of 6 is the least of evils between 10's unfriendliness with 3s and 12's unfriendliness with 5s and 7s

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Yeah, but the numbers get long way too quickly, so in my opinion they're equally as good as each other but for different reasons. I'd still prefer dozenal but I wouldn't be opposed to seximal as it would still be better than decimal.

[@YourAverageLink]

@@Persun_McPersonson that's fair. You could compress with base 36 or use scientific notation if need be, to be fair.

[@andersonkurk3976]

I prefer base 666.

[@astronomerninety-one9486]

Sub 126 Dec or X6 Doz

[@PsychicAlchemy]

In dozenal, the golden ratio is a perfect 1.75 when N = one dozen. The golden ratio is fundamental to all of nature, so something this perfect can't be ignored. There are dozens of advantages to base 12; pun intended.

[@EGMusic12]

Nope, that’s wrong. It’s very close though. It’s about 1.74EE6772802X46X6X18653... It and any other irrational number like pi and the square root of 2 will be irrational in any base.

[@cyrilj.o.saroch6573]

I'm one of the twenty people who watched the video.

[@adirmugrabi]

1/5 1/7 1/11

[@thecubeur33]

+adir mugrabi 1/5=0.249... 1/7 and 1/11 suck in decimal too

[@jacintszabo2325]

In decimal, 1/3 1/6 1/7 1/9 1/11 two more (one if you're optimistic)

[@Quasarbooster]

Ye ye 123456789χε0

[@SuperKamiRose]

take a hint from the number of views you have on everything else compared to this!

[@luken1144]

Eh, too much joking. Focus on the concepts and throw in jokes every now and then.

[@zofirytusdaskwoque6572]

yeah I agree

[@annadryl3651]

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