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Anons will argue about anything (media.communities.win)
posted 1 year ago by Achanz on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +75Score on mirror )
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Sneak_King on scored.co
1 year ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / +6Score on mirror )
Twelve is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Ten is only divisible by 2 and 5, and you don't often need 1/5 of something. I once read (and don't care if it's true or not) that lumber in the EU is sold in 1.2m increments for this reason.

Also, Imperial measures of volume form a simple doubling system. The issue is that we stopped using some of the intermediate steps.
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