Dozenal Society

[Eddie W. Shore]

(01-27-2017 03:43 PM)Gerald H Wrote:  Great idea & a very nice link.

My own hobby-horse is base 6, having the great advantage of simplicity & economy of type face, not requiring any additional symbols for additional digits.

Counting would look like this:

Decimal style 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12.....

Sixers style 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31.....

I prefer using the symbol 1 for zero in an attempt to demystify zero, many people not being sure zero is a number (sadly I don't know how to do the same trick with negatives & imaginaries), & reducing the values of the following single digits by one.

The reading of "1" would be "one" to ease people into the new system, similarly "2" would be read as "two" etc, however the values of the digits would all be one less than traditionally, again to reduce the learning curve.

I have suggested this outline to some friends but have met with a general negative response.

If 1 is used for 0 in sixers style, am I correct in assuming 2 is used for 1, 3 is used for 2, etc?