Yeah, this kind of thing annoys me to no end when I scroll through these kind of debates in comment threads. I wonder if people who pose these hypotheticals abo

Yeah, this kind of thing annoys me to no end when I scroll through these kind of debates in comment threads. I wonder if people who pose these hypotheticals about dividing lengths down would be surprised that tradesmen and carpenters in the rest of the world get on just fine, and don’t need a maths degree to work this kind of thing out! A lot of the arguments though (and some of the most impassioned) mostly boil down to “I’m more familiar with this system so I assume it’s better” - for example, any time that people say that customary units are “more human scales” or “fractions are easier to understand than decimals” whatever. It actually makes basically no difference in practice, it’s just that growing up with one system or the other makes you a lot more familiar with it!