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Why Base 12 and 16 Are Better Than Decimal?

James Vincent: Base 12 and base 16 were useful in the past, but they are unnecessary now. Do you do you own any ornament or keepsake a meteorological object mounted on your wall or elsewhere that reminds you of measurement? I have a very lovely vintage metric tape, which was given to me by a dear friend of mine when the book was published," he says.

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