>
> If everything is better in decimal, why don't we have 10 hours days of
> 100 minutes each? Just sayin' :-)
Because when Robespierre attempted to introduce such a thing,
recalcitrant old farts like you sabotaged it!
Body sense? How many fingers do you have around your parts? 12?
(Hmmmm....)
A base ten system makes a lot more sense than any other, whether the
basic stride length unit is arbitrary or not.
However, in the interests of fair play, I'll include conversions into
versts, bushells, cwt., cubits and parsecs in future.
Which parts of your body do they correspond to?
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 11/05/2010, at 7:52 AM, Moose wrote:
> The old, sort of English system still in common use here makes a lot
> of
> sense to me at the level of living personal life. An inch is the
> length
> of the end part of my index finger, the span of the four fingers of my
> hand is 6 in., my foot is about a foot long, elbow to fingertip is 18
> in., the distance from nose to fingertip stretched out to the side
> is a
> yard, and thus the span of my reach is two yards or six feet.
>
> There is nothing about the metric system that has anything like the
> body
> level sense of the old English system of measurement.
>
>
>
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