Twelve.

By Maxine Jasmin-Green

Wed, 03 Jul 2024
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The number 12 is not a big number. Today £12 can’t get you much in the shops. If £12 was all I got paid a month, I would be in dire straits! Yet 12 years of pain, there is nothing worse than pain!! That would be unbearable. I would take anything to stop the pain, I wouldn’t care what it was, or what others thought. I think the number 12 is a nice number.

Recently it was in the news, that father and son had climbed the remote Scottish Highlands, Glencoe, and Glen Nevis. They later failed to return home and a search was on to find them.

A woman who didn’t want to be named said, “I met them, they were VERY happy, they had reached the top, and were on their way down.”

Their bodies were soon found, it is thought that they had fallen. They were described as experienced hikers. In My View, no child is experienced at anything at just 12 years old.

Rest in Peace, Richie Parry age just Twelve.        

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

The number 12 is more special than you might think, it has to do with that it has 2 , 3, 4 , 6 as four divisors where 10 has only two, 2 and 5. That is why numbers in base 12 are so easy for arithmetic, we use base 10 probably because of our 10 fingers etc. The base 12 was also the reasoning for the imperial system for measures and money.

There is even a society dedicated to change everything to base 12 and abolish 10. That would be confusing. And electronics work on base 2. As you wish. I still count on my fingers the fencepost error has me bowled. I always forget my age then I have to work it out all over again. It's confusing you know.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other! Tom

 

Submitted by Maxine Jasmin-Green on

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