What has he done to deserve this?

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Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren't they?

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Metric drill bits are measured in mm and hardy anybody needs that much (0.33333... mm/cm) precision. I have a set of metric drill bits in 0.1mm increments and I personally 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.

0.33333… is what happens when you try to divide 10 by 3. This is because 10 is such a broken number that 1/3rd (a pretty common fraction) becomes an infinitely repeating decimal. In base12, 1/3rd is 4.0. Metric is broken by design because it's based on base10. Lets take the lessons learned from the metric system and invent something new, something better, something base12.

Yes, I learned about fractions and decimals in elementary school.

Then why are you simping for base10 when you know enough math to understand that base12 is superior

Base 12 would be better in many cases but I just don't see anybody switching anytime soon. We would pretty much have to start over.

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And 12 doesn't divide nicely by 5. So what?

How often in real life do you want a 5th of anything? Is it more often than a third or a quarter? I bet it's not

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