How come the base of the Counting Numbers is 10?

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To honor counting numbers with the 10 fingers?

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Sylvester_P_Smythe2 wrote:

To honor counting numbers with the 10 fingers?

Because humans have 10 fingers, 10 toes.  Our language and math followed suit.

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Yorps count in base 16...

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EscherehcsE wrote:

Yorps count in base 16...

not since the incident

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awesome1184 wrote:
EscherehcsE wrote:

Yorps count in base 16...

not since the incident

We don't talk about "the incident." It happened over 12C blargs ago...

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