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That's what they said when we switched from the 12 inch foot to the meter!

• mikeash 11y ago
  Switching measurement systems is tough, but switching number systems would be about a million times harder. (Or about 12^5.5 times harder, if you prefer.) I have trouble imagining where you'd even start....
  • hyperpallium 11y ago
    True, but my point was that imperial had those benefits of divisibility, yet we switched away from it...
    • mikeash 11y ago
      Because it conflicted with our number system, and we (mostly...) decided that harmony with the number system was better than divisibility. If both were base 12, there wouldn't be any conflict.