Peter Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... Of course, for some specialised work, > metric measurements are no better and no worse; atronomers for instance do > better with the numbers they need to measure huge distances, when in a > metric form, and physicists with the numbers they need to measure minute > atomic distances. But neither of these is a measurement that us ordinary > folk use on a day-to-day basis - and for those, Imperial with its greater > number of divisors is far better.
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. (Time measurements with base 12 is another kettle of fish. 12 months in a year is good, but the 7 day week is still a killer. 24 hours in a day is close, but there's that pesky divisibility by 5 when splitting hours into minutes or minutes into seconds.) --Art
