Originally Posted by
PEU
This image shows what the inch system DID for a lot of time regarding measurement.
The problem is that evolution in measurement goes a lot faster than human evolution, today we hardly use our hands for measurement, but we still have 10 fingers like 1 million years ago.
Its far easy to do calculations in base 10 than in any other base, because we have 10 fingers.
Pablo
So.......You are still counting on your fingers?
Americans do some calculation mentally, use a pencil or sometimes a calculator.
I think the man intended to illustrate that he had a way to get "close" on measurements without a measuring device and he asked if metric could do that.
You have tried to rip him up without answering him. That is what one does when he has been defeated.
Silly argument anyway!!
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