Alloy Wrote:Base 10 is the way to go.
I mean, HECK, the NUMBERS we use are base 10! Why do we have to make it any harder? It's just adding or taking away zeroes...
Anyone mind to show me a table of the other system? I'm now curious, because I can't imagine how can the metric sistem be that hard.
This is how you count in base 6.
1
2
3
4
5
10
11
12
13
14
15
20
21
22
..
51
52
53
54
55
100
101
...and so forth.
It is also just adding and taking away zeroes. Converting from one unit to another would still be a matter of multiplying by 10(base 6) to some power.
My main issue with the metric system is how complicated dividing by simple numbers like 2,3 and 4 become. Want to split an inch into sixteenths? Sure. We call it 1/16 inches. Want to split a cm into sixteenths? That's 6.25*10^-4 meters. Use fractions please.
Really, the only units I really want to hang on to are length, mass, and volume. Volume with gallons, quarts, pints, cups, ounces, tablespoons, and teaspoons is way easier than with ---liters. Why? Because they're all conveniently multiples of 2s and 3s, which is awesome when you're doing everyday things like mixing things.
I'd use Liters, Kilograms, and Meters when doing Engineering stuff, though, because the Metric system works wonderfully for things that aren't so everyday. If only it weren't base 10.
You can have temperature. I'd rather use Celsius, as it's based on figures we actually work with rather than something random like the maximum the freezing point of water can be depressed by adding solutes o_o