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Quote Originally Posted by oddler
What's the reason? I'm just asking because I don't know what the reasoning behind it is.
Our time system is nice and easy to use because it's easily divisible into a bunch of common numbers: 2, 3, 4, etc. The base 10 in metric doesn't matter so much in daily live, but stuff like 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 does. Half-hour, quarter-hour, etc, are expressions heard all the time, and those times are easily calculated. The same goes for the imperial foot: 12 inches, 36 inches to a yard. You can easily divide that into half, thirds, or fourths. Whereas in a base-10 system, the numbers 10, 50, 100 are not divisible by 3, which is a fraction used much more commonly in daily life than 1/10.
Nice and easy is relative to the person, I guess.

Here's the real question: Are fractions or decimals better?

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Quote Originally Posted by rubah
The only real flaw I see is that you can't take it off our planet xD (what with the mass=gravitation pull it does)
Can't take what off the planet?
Mass is mass no matter where you are. Not trying to be a dack but I can't tell what you mean.
Mass is, but gravitational pull isn't
So, you can't take weight off the planet?