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Funny how we went through the monumental effort to build and adopt a whole new system of units just because a few people were bad at grade-school arithmetic and
by hansvm 3y ago
Funny how we went through the monumental effort to build and adopt a whole new system of units just because a few people were bad at grade-school arithmetic and mental math.
- gumby 3y agoIt's especially weird because 12 is so much more useful than 10.
- olddustytrail 3y agoOddly enough, it's still possible to have 12 metres or 12 tonnes within the metric system. I realise this is baffling and confusing to Americans but it's really true!