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The 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 c
by ralph84 4y ago
The 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 SI is no less outdated than those units, but we hold onto it for backwards compatibility.