My seventh grade math teacher said yes. She held up her ten digits and said this is why we have base ten. If we had six fingers on each hand, we would count in base 12. “Ten” is just the base, whatever it is. When you reach it, it means the column (as on an abacus) is full, so you move over one column and place a zero in the first (“ones”) column. She then taught us to count and do arithmetic in base 6, base 8, base 2, and finally base 16. In base two, you count “one, ten, eleven, one hundred.” This was in the late 1950s.