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?

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.