Just had a random conversation with someone about how math is the history of civilization, and how base 60, 5, 10, 12 and 20 have been used at different points in history for different reasons.
My wife says my conversations with people are unusual. 🤓
🤓🤓🤓
🤣 all my woman say the same but I know they crazy 😅
Sounds fascinating. So how is math the history of civilization? I read a book about zero that went into its role as a crucial innovation and a contentious idea. My favorite base is 12.
Each rising civilization has a corresponding rise in the use and understanding of mathematics. And each mathematical system which emerges contains echos of the culture, how they thought, and the problems they were solving.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman…
Im partial to the Mayan base 20.
Just because it grew independent of the worlds major empires, and even had representation for zero.
"Just to be clear we're going to be using base 10 for this conversation."
