• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I gotta say, you make some fair points.

      It’s a lot of memorization that I simply haven’t done and won’t ever have to do.

      The fraction reduction doesn’t help intuitive thought. If imperial operated on ‘significant digits’ and marked any set or document with a 64th always as 64ths, as in 16/64ths, I’d be more on board.

      We just need to replace out base 10 system of counting with base 12 and we’d get the best of both worlds!