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ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  10 can only be divided evenly by 2 and 5. 12 can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, or 6. The Babylonians were right, base12 is superior to base10.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Hey could I borrow a drill bit?”

    “Sure, what size?”

    “Seventeen sixty-fourths”

    “Fuck you”

    Sorry man I think in 2024 you’re objectively wrong.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re pointing out the problem in base10 having too many fractions that don’t divide cleanly. This is why base10 is shit.

      Low IQ Base10: 17/64 - 0.265625

      Equivalent expression in Chad Base12: 15/54 - 0.323

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      • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This post is about the metric system, not base 10 vs base 12. Metric is superior to imperial.

        Also 15/54 is in no way more convenient than 17/64, I’m assuming you’re joking.

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      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m enjoying you playing devil’s advocate here thoroughly.

        Lemmy is so pigheaded sometimes with certain topics that all they see is one side of everything.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Let’s use BasePi then

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “hey can I borrow a drill bit?”

      “Sure, what size?”

      “0.33333333333333333333333333333333 centimeters”

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      • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Metric drill bits are measured in mm and hardy anybody needs that much precision. I have a set of metric drill bits in 0.1mm increments and I might not ever need greater precision than that. Maybe in some lab environments they need greater precision but I imagine once you’re on that level it would be custom anyway.

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh you don’t have a seventeen sixty-fourths? No problem, just give me a letter H sized drill bit, that’ll do fine.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly. What we did was backwards. We shouldn’t have changed our measurement system to base10, we should’ve changed our counting system to base12.

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Stupid Achaemrnid Empire fucked us all

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You still can!

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Should’ve. Didn’t. Oh well. Stuck with it.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In retrospect I definitely would have liked a duodecimal metric system, but we have what we have at this point. It’s good enough and a DAMN sight better than imperial.

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  • tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That would be an argument…IF it would be consistently 16 between each unit

    Il leave this one here to see if it’s 16 every time: youtu.be/r7x-RGfd0Yk

    Spoiler: it’s not!

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not defending the imperial system. I’m saying the metric system is also stupid and we should have gone with something base12 instead of base10. There’s nothing special or magical about the number 10, our numberical system is only base10 because we have 10 fingers. That’s not much better than a foot being based on the size of the kings boot.

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hexadecimal or bust

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  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mars Climate Orbiter.

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How do you know they don’t use base12 on mars?

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      • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, someone did.

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