Abstract
During World War II a group of clerks in the Army Transport Service found it economical to use base twelve to package objects that were to be loaded into planes or ships. They found that a group of twelve objects could be packaged as 1 × 12, 2 × 6, or 3 × 4 but that a group of ten objects could be packaged only as 1 × 10 and 2 × 5. The greater number of ways of packaging in twelves made possible better loading of a plane or a ship. [I]
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