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posted by [identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com at 05:07pm on 28/07/2009
We should never have decimalised. Base 12 (and 60) is far more useful for pretty much anything than base 10, and has the additional benefit of enforcing at least some basic numeracy.

And don't get me started on temperature: whoever thought that a linear scale was a good idea needs shooting; I'll grant that a logarithmic scale would retain the need for an arbitrary reference point, but it'd get rid of the ludicrous idea of an achievable absolute zero. Come to that, similar applies to any other SI unit you care to mention.

[ wanders off muttering about the sort of pathological insecurity that requires absolutes and certainties in a Universe based on relativity and randomness ]

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Edited Date: 2009-07-28 05:08 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com at 06:07pm on 28/07/2009
wot he said!
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