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glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 days agoyour argument could be enhanced with the inclusion of survey units.
12 inches to a foot
3 feet in a yard
22 yards in a chain
10 chains in a furlong
8 furlongs in a mile
3 miles in a league
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 days ago
What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it’s true.
But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a “metric dozenal” would look like. It’s missing the two things the metric system did right: