Today is a big day for lovers of the number 12, and no one loves 12s more than the members of the Dozenal Society. The Dozenal Society advocates for ditching the base-10 system we use for counting in ...

Explore the Greco-Roman-Etruscan number system and how zero revolutionized our modern numeral efficiency. Z(10). When you stack such rings one on top of the other, and you let them represent, in turn, ...

Humans, for the most part, count in chunks of 10 — that’s the foundation of the decimal system. Despite its near-universal adoption, however, it’s a completely arbitrary numbering system that emerged ...