About base 12 . org

History

• Created on the weekend of the 17^th & 18^th November 2001, although I'd owned the base12.org domain since January 2000. About 4,000 words written in one splurge, almost completely without research, constituting the bulk of the textual material.
• 19^th November 2001, discovered A.C.Aitken's The Case Against Decimalisation, the Dozenal Societies of Great Britain & America (DSGB and DSA) and a highly mathematical paper by Takashi Suga proposing a Universal Unit System based on twelve.
• Realized there was considerable interest in this field (some fair amount I'd inadvertently rehashed).

To Do

• Longer introduction/abstract giving overview of train of thought & conclusions
• Explanation of the notation, including why I write numbers out in full (re-examine this idea?). Also, right now I'm using traditional math technique of subscribting the base (in base 10!): 360₁₀ = 260₁₂; would prefer to come up with some other notation.
• Add more examples in Deja Twelve: dozen & uses of, inches, etc and review them in Lens
• Expand the examples in Division beyond just reciprocals to fractions with much larger numerators & denominators
• Do the Cultures page
• Ensure Lens mirrors Deja Twelve. Perhaps a table summarizing advantages
• Advanced math as an extension of Lens perhaps include T Suga's ideas, simplified.
• Under advanced math, look at common series (fib, fact, geometric etc)
• Find/write some code to do fractional work in base twelve and get it online in some form of interactive worksheet
  • Basic arithmetic
  • Multiplication tables, division, comparing bases
  • Online clock application
• Images, themes & metaphors for design. Sketch out basic "essential" illustrations and make some notes on decorative/thematic content. Recruit a designer?
• Page on alternative symbols and terminology for A₁₂ and B₁₂. Run a competition? Make some T-Shirts with the results?
• Review site content & structure. Convert to XML & design & implement stylesheets.
• Update references
• Add a per-page feedback scriptlet with option to add comments to the page (guestbook/greymatter style). Research this software.

Plan

Thanks