If we humans could easily change our predominantly decimal number system to a different base, which base would you choose? Hexadecimal as it's easy to translate to and from binary (as well as base 4)? Any other bases or benefits? Is base 12 ideal due to today's frequent usage of dozen counting, time and 12's many useful divisors?
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If we humans could easily change our predominantly decimal number system to a different base, which base would you choose? Hexadecimal as it's easy to translate to and from binary (as well as base 4)? Any other bases or benefits? Is base 12 ideal due to today's frequent usage of dozen counting, time and 12's many useful divisors?