Looks like they had 3 fingers per hand, so base 6 seems a likely choice. 6 works great as its divisible by 2 and 3.
I wonder what base we would use if we (somehow) had a prime number of fingers. 2, 6, 30, 60?
I wonder what base we would use if we (somehow) had a prime number of fingers. 2, 6, 30, 60?
Depends how they use their fingers and whether they use other body parts. There is evidence for human cultures having ranged from 4 to 10, 12, 16, and 20 (technically there are higher ones but they usually have sub-bases in that range).
You can count to 12 on a single hand (24 on two hands) by pointing phalanges with the thumb for instance. Some native cultures had base 8 using the space between the fingers rather than the fingers themselves.
2, 6, 12, 60, etc
Number of fingers doesn't matter, although you can shoehorn almost any base into them. For example, base 6 lets you count to 5 on one hand and use your other to coujt multiples of 6. This lets you count to 35 on two hands.
More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_nu...
every base is is base 10...from a certain perspective
60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours.