[sdiy] Metric OT rant

[Terrence McWee]

Man, you kids remember that SchoolHouse Rocks song, "Hey Little Twelve 
Toes"?

On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 08:06  PM, Dominic Tarr wrote:

> thats a good point actually. it's the the measuring system that need to 
> change it's the counting system. base 10 is silly. we should count in 
> base 12.
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B any one?
>
>> When you're dividing something up, how often do you need to divide into
>> 10 parts, as opposed to half, thirds, or quarters ?
>> With 12 inches in a foot, you can divide a foot into 2, 3, 4, or 6
>> parts, with a whole number of inches.
>
> cheers - Dom
>
>
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