Why is the decimal system useful?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

It is one that we are familiar with and because we have ten digits (fingers+thumbs). If humans had had eight digits and grew up counting in eights, we'd be using the octal system and wonder why anyone would want to use a system based on ten!

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∙ 12y ago

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