Lan Barnes wrote:
A wonderful example of an otherwise intelligent person defending what he's used to.
That's a little strong. Defend? That's going to be pretty tough for a guy who owns a mil-mm Vernier caliper.
I will point out that systems often have other concerns besides pure computational efficiency.
For example, woodworking measurements don't seem to annoy me like metalworking measurements. Woodworking fractions normally don't exceed sixteenths and normally even that's a pipe dream due to moisture expansion. Metalworking measurements often see sixty-fourths, and I start grumbling that they should do it in mils or metric.
I would also point out that decimal arithmetic with more than a two digits was actually more annoying than fractions until the advent of modern calculators.
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