There are problems of fractional arithmetic in any base including binary. binary fractions are not base10 fractions and fraught with rounding errors, one more r

There are problems of fractional arithmetic in any base including binary. binary fractions are not base10 fractions and fraught with rounding errors, one more reason to not to use fractional arithmetic . The U.S. foot mentioned in the article is defined as 1200/3937 of a meter which is 0.304800609601... depending on the precision you want the number will keep changing. In Imperial you will find a lot of unit conversions like this which will need fractional arithmetic in base 10 like a foot is 1/3 yard etc. You will not find that in SI units as the base(10) and unit conversions (10) are the same making the definitions precise and avoid fractions between unit conversions