Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.
Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?
Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.
Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?
It’s not about precision, it’s because base 10 can’t divide by 3 cleanly. 1/3 is 0;4 in base12 and 0.33333333333… In base 10. All that reflex rounding and sig digit precision stuff takes a lot less of your mind.