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  • PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world
    tomemes@lemmy.world•Touché
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    3 months ago

    Oh a dozen predates the imperial system by a long way. From wiki because I’m a lazy…

    The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer 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 it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.[1]

    The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (122 = 144) 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. Dozen may also be used to express a moderately large quantity as in “several dozen” (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).[2]

    Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs).

  • PumpUpTheJam@lemmy.world
    tomemes@lemmy.world•Touché
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    3 months ago

    What a naive comment.

    It’s a country the size of a continent with over 300 million citizens. Lots of Americans do what you suggested, but tell somebody in LA or NYC to “get chickens and a small coop” they’d laugh and tell you their reality is very different from yours.