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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Metric is intuitive, but also shit. Just because you have 10 fingers doesn't mean you should formulate a measurement system out of it. In fact if you actually give a shit about intuitiveness you'd go back to the American system which is roughly base 12 and therefore easier for division and manual estimations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Tell that to the romans and indians who based our numbering system on 10