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by coderzach 4120 days ago
> 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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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.
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.