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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

It’s a lot of different things it’s design is based on the sundial, we already had base 12 time

Wikipedia page for base 12, the origin is a fun read and while I can’t say it’s all accurate, the parts I know are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal