What if human hands had 6 fingers?
Scientists speculate that the biggest change in our society if humans all had 6 fingers on each hand is that we’d have a base-12 counting system.The most challenging thing I remember learning in college was learning different base counting systems in a number theory class. Of course I couldn’t understand a damn word the Romanian instructor said, but still the base-10 is so ingrained, like breathing.
What evolutionary anthropologist got really high and decided to think about this?
“HEY MAN, LIKE… LIKE WAIT. LISTEN. WHAT IF WE HAD 12 FINGERS? YOU GUYS. 12 FINGERS.”
Actually, there’s quite a bit of talk on how much easier math’d be if it were base 12 instead of base 10. I know at least the fact that there are more divisors of 12 (2, 3 ,4 6) versus 10 (2, 5), and i’m sure there are others.





