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Re: Numbers from 1-10

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Sunday, August 31, 2003, 19:51
Andrew Patterson <endipatterson@...> writes:

> You will notice that ten can be divided by one two and five,(three factors) > but twelve can be divided exactly by one, two, three, four and six (five > factors)and indeed although five and seven don't divide twelve exactly,
Are there base-12 systems in natlangs? I am considering one for Q, but I am not sure whether that is realistic or not in a human language. Jörg.