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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those aliens have 3 fingers. A decimal system to them is like a system based on 14, 196, 2744, 38416, ... would be like to us - probably worse than US Customary

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no good way to predict what base they'd actually use for their numbers, but there's definitely nothing about 10 that makes it an obvious choice for an inter-species standard line the comic implies.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

3, 6 or 12 would be overwhelmingly likely though, inferring from all documented human language families