If only they made a meter equal a yard. Then we could all be bilingual.
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smnwcj@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Metric will never recover from not being base-12. Ease of use and intuitiveness suddenly trumps "objective" design. We'd have metric time right now, smh.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Base 60 is for times better again
Opisek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let me tell you about base 5040
markz@suppo.fi 3 weeks ago
If there’s base than 10, it is a power of two.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nah, highly composite number. A product of multiple primes. 10 is 2 and 5. A power of 2 is just multiple 2s. 12 gets you 2, 2, and 3. 60 adds a 5.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
We don’t count in base-12. Redesign the numerical system first and get it adopted world wide. I’ll wait.