Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system

• TeenieBopper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Base 12 crew represent.

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• Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  base 60 Babylonian gang where you at

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I mean base 60 would be cool and all, but it would be unwieldy

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Base 60

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• JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Hexadecimal is always best.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It doesn’t divide by 3

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Decimal thirds suck. One gets 33c the second gets 33c the third gets 34c

        We’re just lucky that 1c is negligible

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