• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    1 hour ago

    A brit once told me that the imperial system makes sense if you look at it from the perspective of a peasant at the market - units of 12 was a lot easier to work with in the olden days because it’s easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6.

    I guess it makes sense from a historical viewpoint.

    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      Its basically entirely this, its not for no reason much of the world wound up using something akin to it. Honestly for small scale stuff such as cooking I do genuinely quite like using it but especially in the digital age its simply become obsolete I can’t imagine having to code something which requires employing imperial measurements.

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      1 hour ago

      I just wish it was always 12 instead of 3, 12, 1760 and whatever the eff they come up with.

      Farenheit on the other hand does not make sense at all