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Base-6 wouldn't be bad at all. "100" in base 6 is 36 in base 10. Their metricated unit circle would have three times as many "degree" divisions as we have hours on a clock.
Base 7 or 14 would require something akin to the sexagesimal abstraction layer we use to make base-10 play nice with angles.