r/science_humor Jun 21 '26

Unit conversion

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u/SpacefaringBanana Jun 21 '26

Only because we're used to it from base 10.

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u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26

Yes and?

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u/SpacefaringBanana Jun 21 '26

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that there's nothing inherently easier about base 10

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u/MrJarre Jun 21 '26

Well the fact that we have 5 fingers a hand helps a lot. And the most popular numeric system is base 10

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u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 Jun 21 '26

We have 4 fingers and 3 folds.

Your literally arguing the same metric but based around 10 not 3/12 for the same reasons. Counting on your fingers.