From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason@...> Date: 2004-05-08
On Saturday 08 May 2004 12:56 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> a dozen inches makes a foot i guess... > people liked the dozen dearly in the past.
It's a matter of convenience for math, too. Twelve can be divided by 2, 3, 4, or 6, while 10 can only be divided by 2 or 5. I think that this is also part of the reason why we have 360 degrees in a circle, because it can be divided up so many different ways.