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MyRumIsVodka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours agoNow go cut me a board 1/6m without a measuring device. Do it by eye. With a fractional system 1/6 of a foot is far easier to do.
You probably could do it if you grew up measuring things in centimetres and metres, instead of inches, elbows and feet.
In fact I’m often eyeballing ~10cm = 1/10m based on the size of my middle finger, and ~20cm = 1/5m based on the distance between the tips of my thumb and pinkie when my hand is fully spread out.
You’re confusing “it’s more intuitive because I grew up with it” with “it’s intrinsically more intuitive”.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m perfectly happy and able to seamlessly shift between systems. You seem stuck at “Ugh, me sure me right and all else wrong!” attitude.
And you, by your examples, are STILL using a device to measure things because the metric system isn’t that intuitive. You are using body parts that you have predetermined the approximate lengths of. I can tell a 4 year old child to cut a piece of paper in half and they intuitively understand about how much that is with no pre-measured body parts.