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Indeed, the claimed "elegance" of SI doesn't really hold up, with the SI base units now defined in terms of inelegant defining constants ("a metre is the length
by ralph84 5y ago
Indeed, the claimed "elegance" of SI doesn't really hold up, with the SI base units now defined in terms of inelegant defining constants ("a metre is the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 of a second") and base-10 being inelegant to work with on modern computers.
- gspr 5y agoThe whole point of a system of units is that the vast majority of people working with them don't need to deal with the fundamental definitions. For those who do, there's no system that's any less bad than SI anyway (except natural units, but those wouldn't work for day to day things).
- HPsquared 5y agoIt is quite amusing that the old Imperial system of using fractions everywhere is actually more compatible with binary computers (provided the denominators are a power of 2)