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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Base 12 has factors: 1,2,3,4,6. Dividing by 5 is tricky.

Base 10 has factors: 1,2,5. Dividing by 3 is tricky.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago

I think this is it. The 5 factors instead of 3.

I also think there was something to do with fractions of an inch too. Like that divisibility was also an advantage of imperial.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Even these people who are screeching "decimal for everything!" in the thread still use dozenal for time, months, and cartons of eggs.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile I'm bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I was going to mention the base number issue but couldn't be bothered, i had just only woken up

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