Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by Aardwolf on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:58AM
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Those 8/10/22 ratios are still quite random, and I've never heard anyone use furlong or chain as units (at least in movies).
To be fair, I should have said 1760 yards, which is equally weird (its prime factorization is 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 5 * 11, especially the 11 in there is weird, plus the 5 in there makes it more lean towards base 10 than base 12)
To be fair, I should have said 1760 yards, which is equally weird (its prime factorization is 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 5 * 11, especially the 11 in there is weird, plus the 5 in there makes it more lean towards base 10 than base 12)