Or we should start using a Hexadecimal system. Or even a base 8 system. At least start getting kids using it in school. Today they only touch upon it in higher maths. But if they started learning it in Kindergarden then even basic arithmetic becomes much easier to learn. They’d still learn decimal but like a foreign language, like we learn Roman numerals, “look at that inefficient counting system they used to use”. But they would never want to go back. It makes sense. Seriously.

We tried that 40 years ago (50 in octal). It was called “New Math,” it was supposed to defeat communism, and it was a flop. Maybe it didn’t have to be a flop, but my point is that not enough of those people are dead yet to try it again.