I have an uncle that would argue that we should all switch to a base 12 system

Oct 9, 2015
5:44:10pm

KingDave

Sure, it would change just about everything anyone has ever done in the world, from math, to computers, to sports, to history, etc, but at least it would make division easier.

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Merica.

flavordave

10/9/15 5:13pm

I think what this boils down to is

Yoshinobu

10/9/15 5:16pm

100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit

AndyDwyer

10/9/15 5:18pm

Also true. I just thought this was an interesting article because I'd never

flavordave

10/9/15 5:34pm

There was a lot of language in the math description that I did not understand.

CDV

10/9/15 5:18pm

As someone who's slightly mathematically OCD about repeating fractions,I concede

LeftOfNormal

10/9/15 5:25pm

Ha. Interesting thought.

flavordave

10/9/15 5:32pm

I have an uncle that would argue that we should all switch to a base 12 system

KingDave

10/9/15 5:44pm

I don't think it would really matter for computers.

Squeegee

10/9/15 9:44pm

Until you got to one seventh. Amiright?

NanoFab Coug

10/9/15 5:52pm

Twelve fingers => base-12 system?

ThetaSigma

10/9/15 6:05pm

You mean 2/5ths as easy as metric fractions.

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 6:09pm

As an engineer I use inch units because

StrongBad

10/9/15 5:42pm

That's a valid reason.

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 6:07pm

The English system is much more intuitive.

Freddie Cougar

10/9/15 5:45pm

Especially with weights

Busiturtle

10/9/15 6:03pm

A centigram burger.

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 6:11pm

For some things - but not for others.

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 6:18pm

Sure, real world constants that are anything but intuitive

Freddie Cougar

10/9/15 7:57pm

I would say freezing and boiling are far mor intuitive

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 9:22pm

I'm talking about weights and measures. Temperature is not the measure of a

Freddie Cougar

10/9/15 10:56pm

Between the two of them, the US and UK basically took the world from

hansel

10/9/15 6:37pm

So why does a list of the top 100 universities in the world

PolarisPrime

10/9/15 7:00pm

So you convert from one to the other

Busiturtle

10/9/15 9:12pm

It's not really that hard

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