At an abstract level -- that is to say, assuming an actual base-12 numbering system -- this may well be the case. Unfortunately it's a claim often made by peop

At an abstract level -- that is to say, assuming an actual base-12 numbering system -- this may well be the case. Unfortunately it's a claim often made by people who are preemptively nostalgic for imperial measurements, while simultaneously addicted to base-10 number systems, but who can't quite get past the incompatibilities of the two combined. Beyond that problem there seems to be an underlying belief that using decimal points, and/or accepting any kind of rounding, is some kind of unforgivable concession.