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Re:Preferred number by hyperpallium on Saturday August 01, 2015 @02:17PM (#9988049)
True, but my point was that imperial had those benefits of divisibility, yet we switched away from it...
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Re:Preferred number by mikeash on Saturday August 01, 2015 @02:44PM (#9988195)
Because it conflicted with our number system, and we (mostly...) decided that harmony with the number system was better than divisibility. If both were base 12, there wouldn't be any conflict.
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