Dozenal Vs. Decimal

In his book, "Here's looking at Euclid" one of the most interesting things that Alex Bellos talks about is different number bases and how our base 10 is not always the most efficeient or the most useful. He goes into great detail about base 12 which is called the dozenal system in relation to our decimal system. Bellos explained that the decimal system intrinsically makes sense to us because of our ten fingers which are our primary counting tools from an early age. This does not necessarily a great overall reason to use base 10 especially when there are other factors that make base 12 much more useful. having 12 different units instead of 10 is useful because 12 is more divisible than 10 is. There are more ways to evenly divide 120 than there are 100. This means that you can do more ratios and division with complete precision. I just thought that it was interesting that our entire system of counting could be an inferior one.