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No but seriously. Why the gaps?
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No man, you don't get it, I was told that a foot is much better, because that's 12 inches and then 12 can be easily divided by 2,3,4,6
As if you couldn't just work with wood sizes of 12 or 24cms....
i would accept that if the rest followed.
it's 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile.
meanwhile everywhere else in the world we just add and remove zeroes as needed. (or move the decimal point)
To be fair, using the decimal system for everything was the No1 mistake of the french revolution. A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.
It's so hard to even conceptualize if it would be better. A few common divisions would be, but is it easier than a decimal system? Would switching to one ever not feel weird if you previously learnt the decimal system?
Everyone loves a library!
I think that's the Dewey decimal system, which inspired the Chewy decimal system, which is the next innovation in grocery store layouts.