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Yep, one of the reasons US construction industry sticks to feet and inches instead of using decimal system.
by octobus2021 4y ago
Yep, one of the reasons US construction industry sticks to feet and inches instead of using decimal system.
- timbit42 4y agoThe decimal system should have been the dozenal system but good luck getting people to switch from decimal to dozenal.
- octobus2021 4y agoI don't know how many fingers you have, but decimal system makes more sense to me...
- latexr 4y agoYou can count to twelve on your hands just as easily. And that’s per hand. Numberphile explains: https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc?t=500 https://youtu.be/U6xJfP7-HCc?t=500
- davchana 4y agoSince childhood, I have always counted 16 on 4 fingers. Top of finger tip as 1, then the dark lines between knuckles, on inside side of finger as 2,3,4. After 16, I continue with 17 on first finger again, but left hand has now 1 touched by my thumb. Technically its 16x16 numbers.
- timbit42 4y agoSince I lost 4 in the accident, I have 12 left.
- InCityDreams 4y agoBecause you get paid in coins and have to divide them in 2, 3, 4, 6'z? *but i do now understand the use of a thru'ppenny bit.