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OK, then what was the question?

I certainly am, from time to time.

Sorry, I don't understand your reply and/or how it relates to my earlier comment. Specifically, what does it have to do with a secrecy of the ballot and what is inversely proportional to what.

Don't English names for the numbers up to twelve indicate a use of 12-based system?

I understand that this refers to elapsed time since the Big Bang. However, I as well Also, an abstract of the article, rather than a description of its origin in the beginning, would help.

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I did not. I did not beg, I don't pay for it now, and will not pay in any "other means." I enjoy it. A lot.

Another bit of R. Fenyman wisdom to those pretending to be deep thinkers: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Then, your reference to Galileo's incident is BS because as you said, he was (my emphasis)

To the contrary, people ask you to show, but you just keep talking and talking and talking.

Sure. Another thread I had in mind was not on dinosaurs, but on numeral systems:

I see now. Yes, it's good. No need (for me). It's good enough.

Inspired by another ongoing thread, I imagine that if these dinosaurs were really as smart as primates but escaped the extinction, their descendants would have a heximal numerical system.

Is a use of quinary system by people known? We have a convincing explanation of its use ready.

Count me in.

An answer to this question could represent how high a surveyed group values intelligence. For example, most drivers believe that their driving is above average. I think this is so because driving skills are valued high. Not so sure about intelligence. I'd guess, it would be relatively high in Boston, MA and much lower in Harrisburg, PA.

We use decimal system because that's what we got from Hindus via Arabs, adopted it and have it spread. The reasons are historical. I think, this happened too late for the number of fingers to be an important factor.

Not so sure that seeds in plants are generally oval. But most others can be easily explained. For example, eggs need to get out of the body. What shape would you suggest for this process to go smooth?

I don't think so. I don't think our ancestors couldn't use pebbles, sticks etc. for calculations.

Regardless of the topic, 10^5 (10 raised to the power of 5) is 100,000 rather than 10,000.

@exchemist I didn't see it but by the mod note above I guess I've selected and quoted the Bible statement in your post instead of the original one, and the system showed it as if it was your quote. If this was the case, my apology.

One can get many inconsistencies if one mixes freely these two different models. To be consistent, one should not generally do it, although it works sometimes if applied very carefully and in a restricted domain. In particular, if you use Newtonian perspective, then there is no speed limit. And if use GR, then the galaxies do not move faster than light. Each picture is consistent within itself.

No, it is not. A Newtonian perspective would need to find an energy source causing the observed acceleration of galaxies. You said above that there is no mass, but this is not so. Galaxies have mass. You've also said above that the universe expansion is "space stretching", but it is not so from a Newtonian perspective. It is so from the GR perspective.

But we already have a correction to Newtonian perspective. It is GR. Newtonian perspective doesn't work in this domain.

We don't need Bible for that. There are computer programs, not very complicated, and "when calculated correctly, they play the entire sequence of the Pi number".