TenuredVulture wrote:Sorta think Microsoft might be more appropriate for Washington than Starbucks.

jerseyhoya wrote:How is Dr. Pepper picked for Texas over ExxonMobil or some other massive Texas company?

The Dude wrote:yeah, they are in Camden

CalvinBall wrote:

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CalvinBall wrote:i know fed ex is pretty big but i think there is an argument to be made for jack daniels.

Or any of the Yum! Brands.

think that is kentucky, but yeah probably better that fucking lexmark.

TenuredVulture wrote:

The Dude wrote:yeah, they are in Camden

Nothing is in Camden. I suppose maybe they have a PO box there or something.

Bucky wrote:how da heck did "dozen" become a common unit of measurement

A dozen (common abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. Twelve is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3, 3 × 4 = 12, 2 × 6 = 12, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). This could come from counting on one's fingers by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144, the duodecimal 100) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. A baker's dozen, also known as big, or long dozen, is 13.

phatj wrote:Twelve is actually a more convenient base than ten, it just seems awkward because we use base-ten. If we actually used base-twelve, there would be additional numerals for ten and eleven and "10" would actually represent twelve.

phatj wrote:Twelve is actually a more convenient base than ten, it just seems awkward because we use base-ten. If we actually used base-twelve, there would be additional numerals for ten and eleven and "10" would actually represent twelve.

drsmooth wrote:what is 7.3 in base 12