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 te

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.