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Also vaguely related, I've come to realize some people find metric measurements easier than feet and inches.

I find the fractions simpler. Need a half of that half? Just double the denominator.

My wife would seemingly rather keep counting .1 centimeters.

The same applies with clocks. It's easier for me to rough out how long I have if I just chop the face into fractions vs mental arithmetic, as brutal as that sounds. What do you mean this guy can't divide 30 in half?



Romans were using both : "metric/decimal" for numbers, but "imperial/dozenal" for fractions :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus

(Base 12x5=60 was of course used by their Babylonian predecessors.)


If only we were a species with six fingers per hand.




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