In fact, the Anglo-Saxons should take a step further: why only use inches, feet miles, yards? Why stop there? I suggest a new TIME SYSTEM!
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The basis is mimoprala, this is a bit like the second. There are 12.5 mimopralas in a…
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napoleon. This is how long it takes for a mouse to run three shoes sizes. There are 57 napoleons in a…
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troupay. There 4.5 trupees in a day, but the last truupai of the day is 2.6 times longer than on the previous day.
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a day starts with sunrise and ends with sunset.
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there are 263 days in a year, the rest is vacation.
Time isnt metric. They tried metric time, everyone hated it. This is likely because the existing clocks are a dozenal system which is far superior to metric’s base10.
If an alien civilization had what we would call base 5 counting as standard, would they still call it base 10 if they never had more words for digits than zero to four?
They would use a base 10 system and we would use a base 20.
We have words for numbers that are outside of 0-9 they probably would too