This website explains the duodecimal system.

http://www.friesian.com/quanta.htm#twelve

Only the fractions like 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 are easy.
But look at the multiplications given in the table (at
the bottom).
Its horrrible and confuuusing.

In a day to day life, we do more multiplications like
how many eggs are in 3 packets, 
 if 1 way fare is 2.30, how much is 2 way fare, etc.

Only advantage with duodecimal is that it reduces the
number of digits like A=10, B=11, etc.

If you want to reduce digits in decimal system, then
you are free to use D for 10, H for 100, K for 1000,
etc.

But think of writing numbers in sentences.
To say that
 I bought ten cans of soda, I should write
 A cans of soda.  Does this look nice.

Dont jump into a weird system.

The guy who maintains this website should be
anti-metric.  If you go little above in the webpage,
he argues that computers have defied metric system.

Madan


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