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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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ChargedUpCharger on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Its a good point. I prefer metric, but people shit on SAE ignoring that it's a highly practical system in the absence of standardized measurement tools.

The factional numbers are more of the same. Measurements can be divided by 2 fairly accurately, so halves, quarters, etc are easy and accurate. Dividing a measurement into 10 parts accurately is not easy. In a way, metric is also silly for being base 10. 2 or 16 are much better choices, but the arabs who came up with the number system numbers had ten fingers, so...
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