Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 909
Try weights and volumes:
1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 cups = 128 ounces = 256 tablespoons
1 pound = 16 ounces = 256 drams
The core is there, we just need to rationalize it further.
A yard isn't that far from 2^5 inches.
A mile is already pretty darned close to 2^16 inches.
And, surely you're familiar with the rounding errors involved in trying to represent base 10 decimals in binary? That is, no finite representation of 1 cm in meters? 1 1 cm = 0.0000001010001110101... m
Face it, base 2 measures are superior for our computerized society. I'f we're going to switch measures in the US, let's go with a system which recognizes the problems of base 10.