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A base-12 metric system would be absolutely gorgeous. Geometry and trigonometry would be greatly simplified with a duodecimal unit circle. Our 360-degree circle is a truly ugly hack to make geometry play nice with a decimal number system.
Our base-10 number system would be as ugly to a duodecimal society as a base-7 system would be to us.
duodecimal is a decimal based name, I propose “dozecimal”
Seems confusing, why don’t we just call it base-10?
On the last point, a better comparison would be base 6 or base 14.
10 = 2 × 5
6 = 2 × 3
14 = 2 × 7Or maybe a better way of thinking about it is the percentage of numbers that divide nicely in the base, as a percentage.
Base 10 has 2, 5, 10 = 30%
So maybe base 3 is the closest, at 33% of numbers being easily divisible.
Either way, 7 is a significantly worse base than 10.
Base-6 wouldn’t be bad at all. “100” in base 6 is 36 in base 10. Their metricated unit circle would have three times as many “degree” divisions as we have hours on a clock.
Base 7 or 14 would require something akin to the sexagesimal abstraction layer we use to make base-10 play nice with angles.
but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.
Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️
Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
Found in acid rain and cancer cells.
It’s found everywhere. They’ve detected DHMO even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and it’s been estimated that every single human being alive has at least some of it in their bloodstream. We’re fucked.
…ucked.
Well there’s always Roman to fall back to
Gotcha questions like this (eg “should we ban dihydromonoxide”) are supposed to show us not to jump to conclusions, but I’m guessing the people voting no on this one aren’t taking much away from it
In fairness the question is open to interpretation. They don’t specify if they mean western or eastern Arabic numerals.
As schools in the west already teach western, the people responding could justifiably deduce that the question is referring to eastern.
But the Eastern Arabic numbers are the same as the western ones except that the Arabs call them Indian numbers
Lemme guess…another fine YouGov poll?
Civic Science
They openly admit that they were trying to mislead surveyed people with their wording. These results were taken as tribalism on both sides:
Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest Georges Lamaitre as part of their science curriculum?
The results were 20% yes, 53% no, 27% no opinion. Turns out the “creation theory” in question was the Big Bang Theory. No one calls the Big Bang Theory a “creation theory”. Overall, I’d call this a shit poll that isn’t good for anything beyond a chance to clutch at pearls.
Looks like they are not teaching the dumber students enough.
Apparently they call it “Hindu-Arabic” numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening
Sounds like double trouble
Cistercian numeral fans eating tonight
Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.
Get learning, kids.
Those are Mayan numerals for those curious
How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!
Ah yes, 2,313 people, otherwise known as a representative sample 350 million.
2000 can absolutely be a representative sample size. The bigger worry here is sampling bias rather than sample size.
Tell me you don’t know statistics without saying it specifically.
🙄
This fucking comment on every single poll result. Consider learning even the tiniest bit about how statistical sampling works.
It appears to be an online poll which wouldn’t have proper sampling
That’s a vastly better critique than just whining about the sample size.
I don’t think a more representative sample would improve the ratio, tbh
I don’t believe this is a representative sample, but not because of the sample size. Stay in your lane, high school level science education.
High school statistics covers sampling just fine. Some people weren’t paying attention.
You know there will be plenty of Americans who think their numbers are American and not Arabic.
Hey now. Every village has its idiots. We just happen to have a lot of them.
I’ve heard “speak American” coming out of one’s mouth once.
Because freedom!
MURICAAAA!
…ucked
xx past xi. Sure, whatever
To be fair the system is hindu arabic.
Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣
TIL
Im guessing the “No” makes a bell curve of those who know and those that dont
