• @[email protected]
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      Base 12 is not organically common, it’s incredibly rare even with the modern counting systems we’ve discovered…

      The frequency of emergences (based on language families that use them) are: 4 ~1 time, 5 ~4 times, 6 ~3 times, 8 ~2 times, 10 ?? times, 12 ~3 times, 15 ~1 time, 20 ~9 times, 20+5 ~2 times, 23 ~1 time, 24 ~1 time, 27 ~1-2 times, 32 ~1 time, 60 ~2 times

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        32 years ago

        That’s very cool data, thanks for sharing!