Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by xxs on Sunday August 10, 2014 @01:59AM
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You shall count only the prime ones, both have only 2 prime divisors.
Then 60 would be of real use (and it has been used in the past[1]... and still is in angular measurements with the famous 360 degrees) but it contains only 5 as extra prime divisor.
Twelve has five factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.
When dealing with fractions, twelve is more efficient. I agree imperial units still aren't worth the trouble of being different than the rest of the world.