• Kalash@feddit.ch
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    11 months ago

    *Americans.

    The rest of the world doesn’t bother with fractions of “pounds” in the first place.

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        11 months ago

        But you don’t need them since the units already neatly divide. You don’t use a quarter kilo, you’d just say 250 gram.

        Ignoring that where I live the weight of the burger isn’t part of the name in the first place. They are just called “royal”.

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          I love the metric system and think we should all use it, but 12 (inches in a foot) and 16 (ounces in a pound) both have more factors than 10.

          I still think metric is the best system, but I wish our ancestors had used base 12 counting so we could all use a base 12 metric system and everyone’s life would be better.