re: #149 gmsc

For Zombie:

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Exactly!

I was a victim of dozenalism:

Advocacy and “dozenalism”

The case for the duodecimal system was put forth at length in F. Emerson Andrews’ 1935 book New Numbers: How Acceptance of a Duodecimal Base Would Simplify Mathematics. Emerson noted that, due to the prevalence of factors of twelve in many traditional units of weight and measure, many of the computational advantages claimed for the metric system could be realized either by the adoption of ten-based weights and measure or by the adoption of the duodecimal number system.
Rather than the symbols ‘A’ for ten and ‘B’ for eleven as used in hexadecimal notation and vigesimal notation (or ‘T’ and ‘E’ for ten and eleven), he suggested in his book and used a script X and a script E, and , to represent the digits ten and eleven respectively, because, at least on a page of Roman script, these characters were distinct from any existing letters or numerals, yet were readily available in printers’ fonts. He chose for its resemblance to the Roman numeral X, and as the first letter of the word “eleven”.