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Vincent :coffeecup:

@DuvetGecko @CppGuy @hollie The ancient near-eastern peoples of Babylon and Assyria used the joints on a hand for counting (thumb excluded), to give 12 per hand. Which is not coincidentally how many hours make up a half-day. A whole day is two hands of hours.

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wauz

@vincent
12=2 * 2 * 3
So twelf has nice prime factors, what makes it pretty practicable as a packing unit and so on...
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