Fake history tells us, that the Romans did not know the number zero. That tells me, that the Romans are totally fake. They had great engineers and catapults without knowing the number 0? You can tell that to some child in Kindergarten, but hey not to a self thinker.
Anatoli Timofejewitsch Fomenko, the great Russian mathematician, debunked Roman history 30 years ago and not only that.
Latin is a new language, developed for the Roman Church, not older than 300 years. In German it writes Lateinisch = late invented in Switzerland (Monastery of St. Gall). The whole grammar of " latin" is like German ( see Robert Baldauf). In St. Gall they found many copies of the so called Roman writers.
Because it's cleanly divisible by almost all the numbers smaller than its half.
Twelve divides by 1,2,3,4 and 6, only 5 is the oldball out. The practical applications of this is why bakers deal in dozens and the imperial foot had twelve inches, it's just really useful as a base because it's so divisible.
You can see vestiges of its influence in construction even today in dimensional lumber sizing combined with drywall. A standard studwall with sheetrock will come out as four inches thick.
Suppose that you live in 17th century England. You don't have a tape measure. Instead, what you might have is a piece of twine with knots tied into it that you sized up by holding it up to the Imperial foot standard (posted on the wall of Greenwich Observatory today although there used to be many of them scattered around the country). Because the foot is so divisible, you can arrive at 2,3,4, and 6" by simply folding the string. It won't be perfect, but it'll work good enough for the time for rough work like sewing or construction where the tolerances are less critical.
Mind blown. Thanks fren!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_number