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Originally Posted by Ashikabi
But we can just use the smaller unit. It's not like fractions will go away. But we don't need a measuring system entirely based on fractions
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Your realize that the entire reason metric is base 10 is because we have 10 fingers, right? If we had 6 fingers per hand, why wouldnt base 12 make more sense? Or if we only had 3 per hand, maybe base 6 would be the standard.
My point is simply that numbering systems are almost entirely arbitrary.