Tumblr User Passionately Explains Metric System

Knowledge is power folks. Did you plan on wandering your way into an enlightening Tumblr thread about the history and context behind the metric system today? Probably not. Yet here you are. Hey, you never know if this info might come in handy one day. At the very least, it could be some fun knowledge to break out if you ever want to spice up a conversation. Get some more tweets and Tumblr gems to win the battle against boredom, over here.

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$Font - The base 12 system of the traditional English foot is fantastic for mental math, because 12 is a highly divisible number. It's easily divisible into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixths by most people in their heads. The inch is then typically divided into 1/16ths, which *super* suck to deal with on a calculator, but are really quite friendly if you just keep them as fractions like God and the Magna Carta intended. This is the kind of math most artisans need to do. You want supports place$

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