> The US public are really just pretending that they don't use metric.
I also like the fact that feet are are composed of inches in base 12. The promise that decimal brings some deep utility doesn't really materialize in most other contexts, and time is still base 60.
In my view, people who use metric pretend they like using metric. I mean, the unit of temperature is often expressed in divisions that are 0.1 apart, both because the basic units range and scale aren't particularly useful for human experience, and because "centidegree" is pretty difficult to actually "conjugate" in the system.
Neither system is particularly great, they're mostly just familiar, and outside of a few peculiar cases aren't very distinguished from each other.
I also like the fact that feet are are composed of inches in base 12. The promise that decimal brings some deep utility doesn't really materialize in most other contexts, and time is still base 60.
In my view, people who use metric pretend they like using metric. I mean, the unit of temperature is often expressed in divisions that are 0.1 apart, both because the basic units range and scale aren't particularly useful for human experience, and because "centidegree" is pretty difficult to actually "conjugate" in the system.
Neither system is particularly great, they're mostly just familiar, and outside of a few peculiar cases aren't very distinguished from each other.