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oz = italian "onza". uncia mean 1/12, which is 1/12 of a libra now known as a pound. The Romans dominated by I don't know why the decided to divide stuff by 12.
This is nonsense, right?
Yeah, the Romans didn't get all the way to Britannia, fight the Norsemen, Mesopotamia, invent the bible, influence Romance languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, and leave an important and persistent effect on the English and other languages. No, they stayed in their small corner of the world and kept to themselves.
Multiples of 12 can be divided by 2, 3 and 4 to yield whole (integer) numbers.
Why is that important?
It's one of the reasons why there are many counting or number systems that are in multiples of 12. It makes it easier to divide things into equal groups of 2, 3 or 4.
Don't forget one and a half
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
You can also count to 12 on the fingers of one hand.
If you count each finger knuckle you can get 12, and use each finger(including the thumb) as a multipler, you can get 60 and now you know why a lot of things are base 12 and 60. Very handy to carry a pocket calculator in 3,000BC
That's true for 10 then too...
On one hand?
You can count to 31 on one hand. 1023 on two.
They mean the pads on the fingers
Or joint
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