Perhaps humanity should have chosen base 12 (or, of course, base 16) at end of 18th century. With base 12 SI units at least some argument for imperial units wo

Perhaps humanity should have chosen base 12 (or, of course, base 16) at end of 18th century. With base 12 SI units at least some argument for imperial units would be gone, that is that some of their ratios are easy fractions. Not that this makes sense since the ratios of different imperial units are different random numerical values, and nothing prevents using fraction notation with metric units