Originally Posted By: AudioTrack
I know both systems, and I definitely know which one is better, more versatile and far easier to use smile

I'd have rather we'd just changed, that this never-ending half-way mongrel of a system!

Which is easier to use is a bit moot, though, at least in some circumstances.
A dozen is divisible into an impressive number of integer divisions, as are hours, minutes and seconds; circles (gradians are a decimal-ish hybrid that even my spell-checker doesn't recognise).

But ounces, fluid ounces, pints (US and UK), gallons (ditto), stones, hundredweights, rods, poles, perches, bushels and the rest are, for sure, a nonsense today.

But I still work in binary, ternary, octal and hexadecimal and I still use degrees and nautical miles, which of course are minutes of arc on the Earth's surface.

I also regularly have to explain to Europeans that American billions are 1/1000th the size of European billions. In Europe they're milliards and a billion is a million million.

It's a struggle crazy

It'd have been so much easier if we'd been born with 12 fingers of that shepherd on a hill had counted in binary. laugh

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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