In a message dated 2000/02/15 01:44:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The way to cut the Gordian knot is to throw out everything and start >over with a base 12 numeral system. Then the scientific calculations >and the everyday divisions by 2, 3, 4, and 6 are *both* easy.
Hear hear! The greatest tragedy of the metric system is that it uses decimal base. Bring back base 12: one, dozen, gross. How did we lose it in the first place? Was it that Arabic mathematicians were so much more advanced than their European counterparts? John B
