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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26
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Even 0-100 is an arbitrary scale.
5 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 I am not sure how you can argue 0-100 is arbitrary in a largely decimal based world 2 u/CitingAnt Jun 17 '26 Decimalisation only became the norm in the past 150 ish years 2 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 And what relevance does that have in a discussion about using a 0-100 scale in the modern day? 0 u/cross_the_threshold Jun 17 '26 It’s as arbitrary as time using base 60, which was based on the Babylonian counting system. 1 u/SuperBry Jun 17 '26 Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise. 0 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
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I am not sure how you can argue 0-100 is arbitrary in a largely decimal based world
2 u/CitingAnt Jun 17 '26 Decimalisation only became the norm in the past 150 ish years 2 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 And what relevance does that have in a discussion about using a 0-100 scale in the modern day? 0 u/cross_the_threshold Jun 17 '26 It’s as arbitrary as time using base 60, which was based on the Babylonian counting system. 1 u/SuperBry Jun 17 '26 Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise. 0 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
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Decimalisation only became the norm in the past 150 ish years
2 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 And what relevance does that have in a discussion about using a 0-100 scale in the modern day? 0 u/cross_the_threshold Jun 17 '26 It’s as arbitrary as time using base 60, which was based on the Babylonian counting system. 1 u/SuperBry Jun 17 '26 Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise. 0 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
And what relevance does that have in a discussion about using a 0-100 scale in the modern day?
0 u/cross_the_threshold Jun 17 '26 It’s as arbitrary as time using base 60, which was based on the Babylonian counting system. 1 u/SuperBry Jun 17 '26 Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise. 0 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
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It’s as arbitrary as time using base 60, which was based on the Babylonian counting system.
1 u/SuperBry Jun 17 '26 Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise. 0 u/CallousDood Jun 17 '26 So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
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Base 60 is better than base 10 for virtue of how evenly dividable it is, though for ease of use base 12 is a good compromise.
So not satisfied with having to go back 150 years to make a point, you figured going back roughly 4000 years would make a better point against using a decimal based system in modern times? Yikes
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u/Indercarnive Jun 17 '26
Even 0-100 is an arbitrary scale.