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hyperpallium on Aug 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Preferred number

True, but my point was that imperial had those benefits of divisibility, yet we switched away from it...

mikeash on Aug 1, 2015 [–]

Because it conflicted with our number system, and we (mostly...) decided that harmony with the number system was better than divisibility. If both were base 12, there wouldn't be any conflict.

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