caleb on Nostr: Imperial has a decent amount of highly composite numbers that work well when you ...
Imperial has a decent amount of highly composite numbers that work well when you don’t have calculators. Eg 12 shillings per pound, 20 pence per shilling. 12 and 240 are highly composite and easy to divide into a bunch of fractions. Same with hours and minutes. Romans used base 12 a lot.
I’ll switch to metric when everyone else switches to ASCII.
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