DGDevin wrote:

Intelligence has nothing to do with it, how well people are taught to
use whichever system is the issue. People using supposedly inferior
and obsolete non-metric systems of weights and measures built much of
the world you know, so it would seem that the system employed is not
responsible for the quality achieved. If you were as smart as me
you'd see that. [That last bit is a joke BTW].

Right on! There was a time, not so very long ago, when, with every tolling
of the hour by Big Ben, the British Ensign was being raised over some
benighted spot on the globe.

Today, with every tick of the atomic clock at the National Bureau of
Standards, Microsoft Windows is booting up somewhere on the planet (often
for the fourth time today).