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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by tylerhou on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:55PM (#18473441)
Nit: 1/3 of a meter is rational. You're looking for "whole number."
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by Just_Smith on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:19PM (#18473531)
Correct - I've admittedly had a few beers.

Which might be obvious due to me debating the merits of the number 12 on the internet.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by kiriakasis on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:39AM (#18474912)
Well 12 is amazing, but arguably there are too many other negative aspects in the imperial system as a whole.
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by nostrademons on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:22PM (#18473540)
But 1/2 isn't a whole number either.

Base-10 absolutism rears its head again. The objection to 1/3 is that it has a non-terminating decimal expansion. This is not a problem if you're using base-anything-with-3-as-a-factor.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by pcnix on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:28AM (#18474889)
What about 1/5 instead? There's always going to be problems with some base, the point is that unit conversions are super easy with metric, and it's easier to teach to children.

As for temperature, 0 is really gold and 100 is really hot in pretty much every scale, that's just a very subjective way of describing things.

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