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And Canada. I hate that map of the US and Burma. The US uses metric as it is part of customary units anyway. I also wish metric was base 12 or 16.
OMG! This! I wish our numbering system was base 12 so much! As a species, we're ready to evolve
I never gave any thought to this. Why is base 12 better?
Because it's divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6, which makes it easier to do fractional values. 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5.