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[–] Ruthalas@infosec.pub 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Far be it from me to defend the imperial system- I love and daily work in metric, but you realize nearly all ancient measurement systems are created around commonplace physical measures (body parts, strides, etc.) and simple multiples thereof to make their use easy, yeah?

We've got a lot of tools at our disposal now to both standardize and make working with a decimal system a lot more doable than before.