Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system

• Rinox@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends for what. Still better than random scales like 3, 12, 1760 and units that don’t mean anything like hundredweight, which isn’t even one hundred anything, unless it is because you live in another part of the world where the same word means a totally different thing.

  Fancy a pint?

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    12 is much better than 10 and I will die on this hill.

    If there was a vote to change everything to base 12 counting I would.

    How is 12 not better than 12?

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    • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t agree. It might sometimes be cool, but with a numerical system in base 10, having a unit system in base 12 becomes really hard to manage. Let’s take meters:

      1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm VS 1m = 12dm = 144cm = 1728mm

      How many mm is 15 dm in each system?

      To make a base 12 system work, you’d need to change the numerical system also, by adding two new digits, like we do for hexadecimal numbers, so you’d have …8-9-A-B-10, where A = 10 and B = 11 (in 10 base), so that 1m = 10dm = 100cm but in base 12.

      Anyway, good luck trying to pass that, I’ve seen people who can barely count on their fingers, let alone understand a new base 12 numerical system. And for what?

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm VS 1m = 12dm = 144cm = 1728mm

        That’s obviously not what I’m talking about.

        To make a base 12 system work, you’d need to change the numerical system also, by adding two new digits, like we do for hexadecimal numbers, so you’d have …8-9-A-B-10, where A = 10 and B = 11 (in 10 base), so that 1m = 10dm = 100cm but in base 12.

        Yes exactly. It’s equally as easy to do both. Counting to base 10 isn’t easier than doing it to base 12 or base 6. But 10 is just a kind of shitty number. That’s why imperial tends to use 12 because its better. They just changed the wrong thing. Metric should use base 12.

        Changing it would be a ball ache. 12 is better than 10 though.

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• DJKayDawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would pick base 12. Which would you prefer?

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  • TeenieBopper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Base 12 crew represent.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    base 60 Babylonian gang where you at

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Base 60 has too many symbols for the digits

      Base 12 you only need two more symbols to follow 9

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      • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah but it doesn’t have the same schwag as base 60

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  • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Base 60

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  • JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Base six

    www.seximal.net

    Base 12 has some aweful divisions, like 1/5th and 1/7th

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hexadecimal is always best.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t divide by 3

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      • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Granted, but it divides by two multiple times. Take a good, round number like 1024 and you can halve it 10 times in a row.

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All the bases are 10

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    12 would have been a better base.

    The only thing going for 10 is that’s how many fingers you have if you can only count in ones

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    • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are a total of twelve segments on the four fingers of each hand (thumb excluded) making it just as easy to count to 12.

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or you can count in binary, and get to over 1000 on ten fingers

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