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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not about thirds and fourths per se. It's actually about lack of divisors. In our current metric system of base 10. We have two divisors, 2 and 5. That's it. No matter if you are talking kilometer, gigameter's whatever, it's just 2's and 5's The imperial system uses more divisors to make the system more useful. There are 5280 feet in a mile. But why? Well because that number has divisors of 2,3,5 and 11. Which allows you a lot of flexibility for how you want to divide a mile. Or think about time, 3600 seconds in an hour, 24hrs in a day, that's a lot of ways you can easily divide up time. The ability to divide these arbitrary units of time is what makes them useful.

[–] ryo@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok but decimals are still more useful and intuitive. Don't be afraid of the dot!