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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by marak830 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:12AM (#12650193)
Well we use to use cubits and chains for measuring everything too. Science is slowly moving to si, we should probably all start cobaidering a proper system for time that works around metric.

I don't like the idea of explaining to my children that we use this system, because it's the way it has always been done. That's a horrible idea .

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by ChoHag on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:35AM (#12651373)
I look forward to teaching my child that we use this system and using its peculiarities to spawn discussions on number theory, astronomy, history, even art.

Among other things.

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