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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jawsh" data-source="post: 5785405" data-attributes="member: 17061">We're all nerds here, right? If you're not familiar with base twelve notation for mathematics, you should do a google search for it. I'll try and summarize the best I know how. I presume you're familiar with binary and hexadecimal notation. Binary is notating numbers using only two possible digits: 1 and 0. Hexadecimal is notating numbers with sixteen possible digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Binary and hexadecimal are really good systems for working with computers, because binary is the natural language of logic, and it's what you make circuits out of. Hexadecimal is an abbreviated, human scale version of binary. Again, Google if this is going over your head. However, it has been demonstrated that base twelve is the best notational system for general purposes. Base twelve does fractions more easily than the decimal system, because the number twelve has more convenient divisors than ten does. 12 = 2 x 2 x 3 10 = 5 x 2In base twelve, it's easier to measure, estimate, and calculate with numbers from the real world, because the system is inherently more precise. Consider a third. In base ten, a third is 0.333... repeating. Measuring and estimating that quantity can be a pain, because at some point, you have to chop off some part of the fraction. But in base twelve, a third is 0.4. No repeating. You know exactly where to cut. Using base twelve will make it easier to calculate changes to your character's rate of movement. It will make calculating range increments easier. It will even make dividing up party loot and XP easier. Plus, base twelve is a little bit quirky and geeky, the perfect crown jewel for a game that's already based on weird things like polyhedral solids and 2-dimensional hexagonal surfaces (okay, we don't know yet if the game will use hexes, and that can be discussed in another thread). What say you, math geeks?</blockquote>

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