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Yes, give me chains, barley corns and furlongs so that we have nice folksy constants.
by lostlogin 4y ago
Yes, give me chains, barley corns and furlongs so that we have nice folksy constants.
- ralph84 4y agoThe supposed beauty of SI comes from (most) people having 10 fingers, so it has its folksy component. But SI doesn’t work well with computers and its defining constants are ridiculously ugly and inaccessible. SI is no less outdated than those units, but we hold onto it for backwards compatibility.