There site is never updated, and I emailed them several days ago, and yet no response still. Does the organisation even exist?? Does anyone know?

Barry,

If you look through their site you will find a snail-mail address and also a phone number. That might be a better way to communicate with them.

Thanks :) The names Bryan, btw, not Barry.

The organisation is still active, as far as we are aware.

I understood that the Dozenal Society was active only in the United States, not here. I once had a letter from them at the time I was running the U.K. Independence Party's 'Metric Martyr' campaign.

I believe they have dinner parties with, er, 6 or 12 people invited to them

There is a US version as well as the GB group.

They are a fascinating group. Their mathematical thinking is entriguing.

I'm not sure though what they could possibly achieve in any practical sense.

They may be right in that a numeric system base twelve would have been better than the one we have ended up with historically.

It must be clearly understood however that if mankind had been counting base twelve rather than ten the metric system would still have come into being but as a duodenary rather than a denary system.

In such a system there would be 144 (denary) cm to a metre. And if the same principal that defined the first version of the metre (1E7 to a quarter circumference of Earth) had been applied the duo-metre would have been about 28 cm long!

I remember hearing a bloke from the Dozenal Society on 5 Live prior to the 1995 metrication, arguing with someone from Asda.

"Try cutting a cake into 10 pieces instead of 12 and you'll end up with a lot more crumbs..."