[Skwid]

I'm more of a seximal man myself: https://www.seximal.net/

[xg15]

There better be some deep, decades-long feud between the Duodecimal and the Seximal Society, or I'm very disappointed.

(Of course any squabbling is instantly forgotten the moment they have to act against their common arch enemy, the Hexadecimal Society)

[xg15]

(And then there is the Sexagesimal Society. We don't talk about the Sexagesimal Society.)

[Aardwolf]

Base 16 (or base 10, as they would call it) is the perfect base: http://www.intuitor.com/hex/

[Skwid]

I'm standing my ground on optimal base, but I will absolutely be using those hex pronounciations in future

[rep_lodsb]

The "dividing things by two" argument makes a lot of sense! And if you need ⅓ and ⅕, they aren't too bad either: .5555 and .3333 repeating.

[nephihaha]

Sexagesimal (Base 60) is the way to go. Plenty of history behind it and can handle much larger numbers than decimal.

[nephihaha]

Jan Misali! My comment about Esperanto above wasn't far off. Toki Pona... The Newspeak of auxlangs.

[mgr86]

Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people:

> the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, etc. people who like base twelve like to call it "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" for this exact reason. these names are simply too biased in decimal's favor. ideally, every base should have a unique name that reflects its properties, rather than trivial information about its size.

[scythe]

An advantage of seximal is that it takes a lot less time to memorize the times table: there are only ten "nontrivial" entries, whereas in base ten you have 36.