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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
I know! Let's decree that the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle must be 10 for ease of calculation! Since when is ease of calculation justification for the destruction of natural truth?
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You clearly feel very strongly about this, eh?
I think that anything we're used to, will do just fine. Being from a metric-country myself, I can tell you that since we all grow up knowing it, it seems very natural and intuitive - and that the anglo-american system seems very unnatural and basically weird. The problem with "natural truth" is that nowadays it is impraticable to have mearurements based on the size of the arm of some long-ago dead king or something.
Now, it is obvios that some things can't be tampered with. Did you know that the french, during the early ears of the revolution, decided to convert the HOURS OF THE DAY to a metric-sort-of system? There would be 10 hours in the day or something like that. I think that they went a bit too far on that.