Clearly we used to have 12 fingers
Clearly we used to have 12 fingers
They did it because you can count to twelve on one hand if you use your thumb to point and count each crease on your four fingers.
Holy shit. I will never count things the same again.
I had the exact same reaction when I learned that. It's also the reason why we have specific words for everything from zero to twelve, but after that everything is a nested variation of previous numbers eg their(three)-teen
I counted the point of all my fingers too, got 16, and got confused.
Ahhh yeah, just the creases lol
Actually the reasoning was because counting was done using your thumb to point to each of the three bones in each of the four fingers on your hand.
Cries in arthritis. I just tried this and it hurts.
actually the opposite. polydactyly is a dominant gene, but it's new enough that only a small portion of the population has it. given enough time without any weird incidents, we will eventually all have 12 fingers!
Ur the guy in the video
Nah, his hair isn't long enough
You are correct that it is a dominant gene. However, dominant genes don't eliminate recessive genes, they just cause the dominant property to take effect over the recessive one when paired with it. Unless having 12 fingers gives people a strong evolutionary advantage, it will always remain as (un)common as it is today.
if we were in a purely darwinist condition, sure. but human society is at a point where most people judge others based on other things than their physical appearance. assuming polydactyls have a significant enough portion of attractive people within their population, and that ratio doesn't change significantly in the next while, there will come a point where they at least become a majority
How? Why would polydactyls reproduce with greater numbers than non-polydactyls?
imagine this. you're a polydactyl. you happen to be more attractive than most people, based on some other genetic factors. you meet someone and have kids with them, and those kids are all attractive polydactyls. now they go out and have grandkids, and those grandkids have children. eventually, provided your family continues to find people to reproduce with, they will make up a majority of the population of the world
If the dominant (polydactyl) gene was more likely to be passed down than the recessive gene, then that would make sense. But that's not how it works. Dominant and recessive genes have the same chance of getting passed down. The polydactyl gene would be eliminated at the same rate it was getting reproduced, unless polydactyls somehow reproduced more often than non-polydactyls.
Clearly we need funding to study a sizable population of polydactyls and quantify their attractiveness/reproduction rates and compare it to the general population. I also hypothesize certain societal advantages of being polydactyl may increase chances of reproduction. For instance, can polydactyls type faster? Faster wpm = better pay = higher on socioeconomic ladder = more chances to mate. I’ll happily perform this research for a small grant of $865,000.
I think you may be on to something. Unfortunately, our research budget only allows us to pay for grants in upvotes. Is 1 enough for you to get started?
That is certainly a shame, unfortunately I wont be able to perform the proposed research with such limited resources. However for 2 upvotes I believe I can deliver at least a case study or two.
Only if we're rawdogging the dozeners by the dozen.
tfw no polydactyly gf 😔
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Its a shame we dont still use the duodecimal system, it would be real neat. Dividing by 2, 3, 4 and 6 would be pretty easy. Right now its only 2 and 5.
My pet peeve is when apps at restaurants come in prime quantities like 5 or 7. This food is meant TO SHARE. I can only equally share it if I have 5 or 7 people or an actual party now!
That's how they get you
That's how I always get an extra piece
It's to make you buy two of them
We do. All our clocks are duodecimal.
Yes, for that one thing we do that. Also in many (not all) imperial measurements. But if the entire system of numbers itself were two more than just digits 0-9 then everything measurable could have this easily divisible life with the metric system and regular counting due to 12 being a highly composite number.
12 is the number or inches to a foot, and there are 3 feet to a yard, and 5280 feet in one mile is divisible by 12. Does that mean the imperial measurement system is based on duodecimal?
Sort of, but again as pointed out above, it still uses the base 10 system to actually represent them. In a proper duodecimal system, it'd be "10" inches to a foot.
Ehh not really though? They still use the decimal symbol system. It's a mess when you use duodecimal, but use the decimal symbol system.
In a proper duodecimal system, 12 would be written as "10".
Just because the commonly used Arabic numerals display on clocks aren't duodecimal does not mean clocks themselves are not duodecimal.
On a clock with complete duodecimal numbering there would be no 10 or 12 displayed at all. Instead it would be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ↊, ↋.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Keys_in_dozenal_clock.svg/627px-Keys_in_dozenal_clock.svg.png
Just because the commonly used Arabic numerals display on clocks aren't duodecimal does not mean clocks themselves are not duodecimal.
I don't agree here at all. The symbols on the clock are in decimal, hence it's in decimal. Just because there's 12 numbers there, doesn't mean it's duodecimal.
By this logic a 24 hour clock is base 24? Because there's 24 symbols there.
And it has nothing to do with the minutes either. As there are 60 minutes. If you wanted to say that, it'd be base 60.
On a clock with complete duodecimal numbering there would be no 10 or 12 displayed at all. Instead it would be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ↊, ↋.
Completely depends on the clock. I was thinking more of a traditional dial clock, in which case there would be a "10" if implemented how it is now. It wouldn't be:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ↊, ↋
It would be:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ↊, ↋, 10
Just as decimal clocks don't start at 0, they start at 12. And that would also apply to nearly every 12 hour clock, even digital ones. They rarely start at 0 unless set to 24 hour mode.
Fun fact: this is the basis for the imperial system of measurement. 12 inches to a foot seems random, but it makes sense when you consider that it makes it easy to divide up a foot without a calculator.
Fun fact: this is the basis for the imperial system of measurement
Well sometimes anyway. Some of them are 12, but others are not. E.g. a short ton is 2000lbs, which has fuck all to do with dueodecimal. Or a yard is 3ft. Etc etc etc. It's a mess.
And also even in cases where it is 12, it still actually represents the numbers using decimal. If it was proper duodecimal, it'd be "10" inches to a foot, but of course you'd count like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, 10. Or whatever other symbols you'd like for A/B.
This is something people often get confused with, with decimal. They think decimal is special because 10x10=100. But 10x10 is always 100 no matter what the base (excluding unary of course). In decimal 10x10=100. But in duodecimal, 10x10=100. It's just that 100 in duodecimal is a larger number than it is in decimal.
Link for the wiki hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
And here's a link for anyone who wants to jump straight into the youtube rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0
Oh man I love this video because he intentionally made so many obvious errors in the beginning as a joke and people in the comments couldn't resist but to try and correct him.
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https://www.seximal.net/
Jesse Eisenberg has a YouTube channel?
There's also the actual etymology.
(I'm that person, sorry)
He describes it as a holdover from when we used a base 12 system... Who is we, and when is when? Genuinely curious because I wasn't under the impression that a base 12 system was ever used in quite the way that a base 10 system is used now.
^(as in, I know that there's some mixed base stuff involving 12, especially around time, coming from the Babylonians through to today, but I'm not aware of just using base 12 with no further caveats being widespread)
The etymology of dozen has nothing to do with any duodecimal system at all, other than the fact that Latin duodecim is the root of dozen (via French). It's not a holdover.
But the video's a joke (at the expense of maladjusted pedants like me, haha), not an educational video.
It's completely wrong, which I assume is part of the joke.
In French, twelve = douze
Given how much French inspired English, it wouldn't surprise me that it comes from there etymologically
They both come from the same Proto-Indo-European root
Edit: the wiki article linked above states that "dozen" actually does come from "douze," which originates from the Latin "duodecim."
With duodecim being just a combination of the Latin words for two and ten, both of which derive from PIE, you're still technically correct.
You can find any number in pie
Okay, this one'll stump you... where's 14? Checkmate.
Edit: Or is the joke that you're not even talking about pi and I'm just dumb.
S'right after the dot, mate. 3 and 14 hundredths.
Any digit 🤓
So what about a trozen?
Even closer, douzaine in French means "about twelve"
Pro tip, google any word + etymology and it'll tell you.
Phil… I’d like a whole video please. I’m attentive I long that one guy in your video
Me when anything somewhat relevant to Rome is mentioned.
Base 12 is superior in nearly every way. We should go back.
If you were a real believer you'd be calling it base 10.
The ending is basically Big Bang Theory, all we needed was a laugh track and a bazinga then Id be ready to commit not alive
Another fun fact about dozens: A baker's dozen is 13 likely because of strict laws for bakers in medieval England. A baker could be severely punished for shorting a customer. So counting out 13 instead of 12 would help to cover any mistakes.
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-a-bakers-dozen-13
I love Phil jamesson
look i get that it can be offputting, but i am that guy. and i barely know how to stop myself. or why i should stop myself, to be perfectly honest. would you like more gossip in the world? more drama? more conflict? no? then let me tell you about CCPgrey's latest video about the patterns of the interstate highway system.
You do you, man, but it's just not for everyone. If you find people who like to listen, that's dope, but don't get mad about it.
oh don't get me wrong, i do it too. but you said it yourself that it can be offputting, so, that's why we should try to do it less. also my version of the guy said "unwittingly" which is assumptive and rude
cgpgrey slaps tho. watchin the vid, cheers for the rec
Don't let the hivemind get you down. You're a lovely person and I appreciate you :)
I am in this picture and I don't like it.
hi phil this was stellar thank you for sharing with us
Your standard 40-50 minute YouTube essay would need to stretch this out by explaining what numbers are
Why do they call it dozen when you does in the second digit 'n does not the base ten
https://youtu.be/LuP1gyj3W64
ooookaayyyy this is getting to beeeeee a lot of rice
The delivery is what makes this hilarious. The way he says “I’m gonna execute you” at the end gave me a chuckle.
to this day one of my favorite sketch comedy videos
Same here, it's perfect
I think my favorite is the bird one https://youtu.be/LbKFyG-haz0
That video is a trip
holy shit that last frame is chef's kiss
J'
Why? I don't get it
2^64 == big
i mean yeah that's obvious. I don't get the last frame - J'
I'm with you. I have no idea what J' means. Are we dumb? I didn't think so, but maybe?
whats up rhynoplaz. so i stopped using it at the end of my videos, but it was for branding, and is my logo-- the j for jamesson, and the ' kind of lines up with the same segment in the j to do a little bit of a roman numeral II (for the two s's in my last name). i made it in like 10 minutes on MS Paint and then i didn't make a new one. it's essentially my channel logo by default
anyway when they said "last frame" i think they meant the face i made, not the logo
Good video J Prime
Possibly unpopular opinion: the 1-2 frames of J' was kinda neat, I liked it.
You do good work, too. Thanks for all the content.
hey cheers bud! yeah some people say they miss it, but it caused more confusion (see thread above) than it was worth. appreciate the kind words
I don't have an opinion on frames or your J thing but I gotta say your content always gets a laugh outta me. And you look like a friend of mine from high school so you got that going for you Nice stuff man!
Looks like I just walked into a joke with no frame of reference. I really appreciate the response though, I really wasn't expecting an answer from the creator. Thanks and keep up the great work!
sorry to break it to you man, but we are
But in the end, we're all a little bit smarter.
ok i got it - he puts J' at the end of all his videos, so it's meaningless lol
True
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