PanHandler wrote:
"marson" wrote in message
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I also don't think people realize that there are actually advantages to
the english system. for example, what if you had to find the center of
a window opening that was 32 5/8" you can come up with 16 5/16 in a
flash. try it in metric without a calculator.


First of all, they would have specified that window opening as 84 cm not
83.625 cm, so halving it is pretty easy. The decimal system is a cinch to
work with. As far as precision is concerned, try microns or nanometers!


Hmmm,
Anyone has 8 fingers? 16 toes?. LOL!
Real logical numbering is binary.