I mean... no? The number system we used is clearly path dependent on the ways that we measured things. Moving measured things to a single number is precisely

I mean... no? The number system we used is clearly path dependent on the ways that we measured things. Moving measured things to a single number is precisely why metric works so well. And is why many people in the world know their height not as a single number, but as a combination of two units. This seems the case for all measurements. Used to, you wouldn't necessarily combine two units that often. Evidence of the indus valley seems an odd choice? The images I'm finding online about them did exactly as I said, subdivide by half until happy with precision. Indeed, their "lower units of measure" were binary?