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That's false, the Imperial system is pretty bad at doubling or halving. What's double of 3.7 feet? Or half of 1.5? What is 3.7 feet even? Is it 3 feet 7 inches
by pcnix 8y ago
That's false, the Imperial system is pretty bad at doubling or halving.
What's double of 3.7 feet? Or half of 1.5? What is 3.7 feet even? Is it 3 feet 7 inches or 3 feet plus 7th of a feet (This last question is a nitpick)
Any of these in metric are super simple, but just harder to do in base-12.
- kiriakasis 8y agoAnd I would add, it is not immediate to go from 200 inch to 18 feet 2 inches
- afpx 8y agoIn practice, as the previous poster pointed out, Imperial numbers are rational, not real. You wouldn’t normally experience ‘3.7’ feet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not a proponent of the Imperial system (for instance, calculating prices for groceries is painful). I am just pointing out that the metric system doesn’t take into account many Human use cases (Base-10 isn’t great for Humans). It was a system forced upon people by an ‘ivory tower’, and consistent with US philosophy, it makes sense that they rejected it.
- afpx 8y agoAmericans are pretty awesome.