What a weak argument. You shouldn’t have to be good at math to do basic calculations in daily life. Metric is much more accessible in this regard. Even if you lack math skills it is easy to understand.
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Gustephan@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Imagine being so close minded and bad at math that you can only think in base 10 and feel the constant need to degrade people who are good at math in different bases
Spezi@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Gustephan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Did you read the words I wrote? It looks like youre responding to a “imperial units are better than metric” strawman which you may notice I didnt say or even allude to
Bahnd@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The feet to mile conversion is still in base-10… Its the ratios between the units that are seemingly arbitrary. Come on…
Gustephan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral
Bahnd@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You dont write the number of feet in a mile as 14A0 (base-16 for this example).
Your complaining about ratios used for unit conversion, not base numeral systems… Fuck, this feels like a slashdot comment.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.