laid this down on his screen :
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:25:40 -0400, FromTheRafters
wrote:

James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 10/22/2016 :

Decimal is always easier to calculate things
in.

No it isn't.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5977095/why-w...ounting-system

That would make the principal advantage of the metric system moot.

I don't think that matters much as the idea was that "things" are
"always" more easily "calculated" in "decimal". It depends entirely
upon working in the best base for that particular calculation or class
of problem.

Here's another one best done in Hexadecimal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey...louffe_formula

Things aren't necessarily easier to calculate in decimal, it is just
that people are more familiar with decimal so they gravitate toward it.