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No, see https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/yez813/enter_a_wavelength_of_visible_light_380nm_808nm/iu15xpx/

It's because it goes to 12 on one hand, then 5 on the other, and then if you go higher it does 12 again then 5 again. You can think of that as going to 60 on both hands, then 60 again, rather than alternating 12 and 5.

e.g. 12×5 (60) seconds, then 12×5 (60) minutes, then 12 hours

Really it's an alternating base 12/5 number system though.

That's like half of them, right?

Don't be a square.

A haze of some sort

Because you consider both hands. You can get to 12 on one hand, but using both hands you can count to 60 total. Thats just a guess on my part though, I don't actually know.

As noted in other comments and the wiki I commented on, it is actually a base 60, not 12. 12 is just the number of digits you can count to on one hand. In the same way the base 10 system works off of both hands, just using a different base.

The funny thing is, non of these colors could be accurately displayed on any digital device.

That's a base 12 system, I use it sometimes. It's easier to use than counting on fingers. It's a popular way of counting in a lot of places

that's gross...

Doesn't that describe a base 12 system though rather than a base 60, if your off hand represents X * 12? Like in base 10, eleven is represented as 11. (1 * 10 + 1) and in base 2 11 is three (1 * 2 + 1)

Edit: I found a video by numberphile explaining base 60 and he describes it exactly like you did. I guess what I'm hung up on is why is it considered base 60 rather than base 12? https://youtu.be/R9m2jck1f90

Washington. Boom, 88 cities with one name.

Huh. One of us has very unusually-colored blood. But which…?

Gotta go check something. 🗡

Would have, not would of.

Pretty much exactly my experience. Major cities that I know, then state capitals and sports towns I could remember, then small towns around places I’ve lived and interstate signs. All while procrastinating

>I already have goddamn eyes to tell me what color a wavelength of light is.

Your eyes don't tell you anything without a reference, which is what this is.

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Look what we do using ones and zeroes, the base doesn't change the maths, the numbers are just written differently

Yet we have a word for a dozen dozen

What happens between 557 and 558?

Its not just calibration, a lot of monitor cannot physically reproduce even the metameric equivalent of the color. The gamut is just not there

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SRGB_chromaticity_CIE1931.svg/440px-SRGB_chromaticity_CIE1931.svg.png

420 is purple.

What have we stumbled on here?

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