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[–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The whole point is that it is ironically base 10. I thought that was the goal?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    That's incidental:

    he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees, and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval 6 times (since 64 = 2⁶).

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