Yes, yes.  Sign me up.

> It's outside the scope of this forum, but some of us will fight you
> to the death over arcane English measurements like "feet" . . . "feet"
> are made up of 12 inches which is an easily factored number which is
> of practical benefit to illiterates: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 are all
> integers and 1/5 is rational (us idiots never divide by 5 anyway, we
> multiply by 2 and shift the decimal point ;-)

One year on sabbatical, not long after Canada "went metric," I wrote an
as yet unpublished article introducing the docimal system, based on
twelve, showing how much better it would have been if humans had evolved
with six fingers.  More than half serious. (Why else do we have special
terms for eleven and twelve, rather than saying one-teen, two-teen? Why
do we have dozens and grosses in spite of the decimal police?) Even
hexadecimal would be better than ten.

And don't get me started on human-scale measurements.  Feet I can
imagine, but how about one two-millionth of the distance from the
equator to the pole for a basic measure?

                                 -- Russ
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