Dozenalism

Dozenalism (the position advocating for revamping our arithmetic around a base of twelve rather than ten) is an odd but strong passion of mine. Here’s a collection of stuff that I’ve done relating to it. This will be one of the “frequently updated” posts, so it can also be found in the sidebar.

• Dozenal Mathematics: A basic explanation of number systems, the dozenal system, and why dozenalism is better than decimalism. Simple blog post.
• A Primer on Dozenalism: An explanation of number systems in general, the dozenal system in particular, and why the dozenal system is the best possible number system for human beings.
• The dozenal Suite: A suite of dozenal programs. Includes dec, which converts dozenal numbers to decimal; doz, which converts decimal numbers to dozenal; dozword, which writes out dozenal numbers in words; tgmconv, which converts metric and imperial measurements to TGM and vice versa; and dozdc, a complete scientific calculator (with trig functions, logs, and so on) which works only in dozenal. Happy mathing!
• dozenal: A LaTeX package, along with both Metafont and Type 1 Postscript fonts for the Pitman characters, allowing dozenal typesetting in LaTeX. Very useful.
• Dozenalism and Time: Explores briefly the great advantages of measuring time in dozenal units.
• Units of the TGM System: A complete reencoding of the scanned version of the units reference tables for Pendlebury’s seminal TGM: A Coherent Dozenal Metrology. The old version was just a scan; this version allows searching, copying and pasting, and the like.

Dozenalism ftw! Praise be to Christ the King!