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		langarto on Aug 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system... We should abandon base 10 and use base 16.

guscost on Aug 9, 2014 | [–]

Base 12 is more useful. We should teach kids to count in binary (and convert it to base 12) then standardize all units around that.

And if some country refuses to go along with the plan, we should bomb them until they capitulate.

Houshalter on Aug 9, 2014 | [–]

Why not base 8? It's closer to 10 and doesn't require 6 more numbers, but 2 fewer.

NolF on Aug 10, 2014 | [–]

It's not as easily divisible by 3.

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