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Nit: 1/3 of a meter is rational. You're looking for "whole number."

• Just_Smith 8y ago
  Correct - I've admittedly had a few beers. Which might be obvious due to me debating the merits of the number 12 on the internet.
  • kiriakasis 8y ago
    Well 12 is amazing, but arguably there are too many other negative aspects in the imperial system as a whole.
• nostrademons 8y ago
  But 1/2 isn't a whole number either. Base-10 absolutism rears its head again. The objection to 1/3 is that it has a non-terminating decimal expansion. This is not a problem if you're using base-anything-with-3-as-a-factor.
  • pcnix 8y ago
    What about 1/5 instead? There's always going to be problems with some base, the point is that unit conversions are super easy with metric, and it's easier to teach to children. As for temperature, 0 is really gold and 100 is really hot in pretty much every scale, that's just a very subjective way of describing things.