It is harder in a pedantic sort of way, but it's not harder in any way that's of any consequence to people who aren't pedantic autists.
If you could invent something that only required people to move three feet instead of five feet to accomplish the same task, you’d sell millions. Look at the remote control.
Yet for some reason you have morons arguing for math that takes five times as long and often requires mechanical assistance for no reason other than that it’s what they were taught as a child
Yet for some reason you have morons arguing for math that takes five times as long and often requires mechanical assistance for no reason other than that it’s what they were taught as a child
It's like you don't know there's an entire civilization built on a different measurement system and the math to convert between them is more difficult than the current math, and there's no way to escape it should the decision to convert be made.
It’s like you don’t know that civilizations have made changes to make their entire civilization better before.
This is like saying we never should have invented the combustion engine because our entire civilization was previously built on horses, and the transition would have been difficult given the number of carriages and plows that would have become obsolete, let alone the number of horses that would become useless mouths to feed.
Also, I’m American. Not sure if I’ve been perceived as someone who’s arguing in favor of what I was taught as a child while accusing you of doing the same.
there's an entire civilization built on a different measurement system and the math to convert between them is more difficult than the current math
Somehow you don’t view this as a logical reason that we should make them the same instead of constantly having to convert things. It completely makes sense in the modern era that a global measurement system should exist, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense to get rid of the more difficult one used by two countries than to get rid of the easier one used by the entire rest of the world.
Edit: also, almost every civilization has had to convert to metric at some point. It’s not like 90% of the world came up with centimeters independently. Societies would have had their own measurement systems and then converted to metric because they realized it was superior. Yet for some reason Americans are so stubborn that they’d rather keep converting to 32nds of an inch than millimeters
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