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On 11/01/2019 13:02, NY wrote:

Definitely. If we'd been born with 12 digits, we'd have learned to
count in base 12, and we'd have invented two extra symbols for what
in base 10 we write as 11 and 12. I can do base 16 arithmetic more
easily than base 12, and that's partly because there's only ever one
digit (numeric or letter) in each column.

Possibly based on the industry you are working in? I was (am) a
electronic hardware designer and used base 16 extensively.

It was computers wot did it.
--
bert