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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by coderzach on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:58AM (#9197448)
> However I'd laugh at anyone who suggest metric is better because people inherently internalise it better

I disagree. Once you've been taught a base ten counting system, units that change based on orders of magnitude is very easy to understand. Since almost everyone has a base ten counting system internalized, metric is MUCH easier.

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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by finnh on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:15PM (#9198798)
But 12 is evenly divisible in thirds and quarters. Actually pretty useful for a bunch of things. Really it's just too bad we have 10 fingers instead of 12.
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Re:Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System by anigbrowl on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:34PM (#9200236)
Yep, but 10 fingers is what most of us have. I like 12 too but unless you can persuade people to start counting in astrological symbols instead of decimal digits then metric is the way to go.
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