>a letter to The Times from someone who, seriously, >felt that it would also be a good time to switch to teaching duodecimal >arithmetic in the schools.
Many years ago, when I took Number Theory from the late, wonderful N. James Schoonmaker, he spent some time advocating the virtues of duodecimal and made us do all calculations for a week in duodecimal. He was, however, aware that the general public was unlikely to adopt it. He regarded the failure to use duodecimal more as a lost opportunity. Bill
