Honestly we should be using base 12 numbers because (2, 3, 4, 6) divide into 12 instead of just (2, 5) for base 10. We could even still count on our fingers -- each of our four non-thumb fingers has three segments separated by knuckles. Use your thumb to mark the numbers. Hell, we could do base 24 that way.
Of course, it would be nightmarishly impractical to implement this with how entrenched our current numbers are.
Honestly we should be using base 12 numbers because (2, 3, 4, 6) divide into 12 instead of just (2, 5) for base 10. We could even still count on our fingers -- each of our four non-thumb fingers has three segments separated by knuckles. Use your thumb to mark the numbers. Hell, we could do base 24 that way.
Of course, it would be nightmarishly impractical to implement this with how entrenched our current numbers are.