Presumably because the digits on their hands add up to 10
It is mainly because humans have ten digits: fingers and thumbs. As a result, from prehistoric times, one of our counting bases has been ten.
because humans have 10 fingers, in olden days they used to count using their fingers
decimal system
No. It uses ten digits and the decimal point: eleven symbols in all.
Presumably because the digits on their hands add up to 10
Computers use a binary system, not decimal.
Yes, South Africa does use the decimal system
No, they use the binary system
India invented the use of the 0 as a place holder and so the decimal system.
It is estimated that around 200,000 libraries worldwide use the Dewey Decimal System to classify their collections.
It is mainly because humans have ten digits: fingers and thumbs. As a result, from prehistoric times, one of our counting bases has been ten.
The library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification system to allocate numbers to books.
The Decimal System
because humans have 10 fingers, in olden days they used to count using their fingers
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!
Romans and Greeks