Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

Simon Kissane wrote:

> why not use factorial numbers (1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, etc.)? Every
> number from 1 to 5 divides into 120, so a 120 day year can be divided
> into half, thirds, quaters and fifths.
Base 60 is evenly divisible (factorable) by 1 thru 6.
Base 30 is almost as good and can match up with
an alphabet of reasonable size. I'm wondering if
base 12 or 6 or 20 have special conlang properties,
useful enough so as to challenge base 10?