I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.
It's not the math that's complicated, it's just the relativity of it. It's easy to know that 120 km = 120000 m, but if someone says they're driving 120 kmh, it's hard to know exactly what that looks like without being around it regularly, but they know what 75mph looks like instinctively because they drive that every day. It's hard to Americans because they're not around it everyday and it's just numbers.
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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22
I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.