Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

In a message dated 9/30/98 9:05:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
fflores@TAU.WAMANI.APC.ORG writes:

<< >So, which system has intrinsically superior merit, the decimal time system
or
 >the duodecimal one?  Any mathematicians?

 I'm not a mathematician, but I think I can assure that no system has
intrinsic
 merits...
  >>

Well, aren't advantages meritorious?  What is this, a semantics quiz?  How
about this as an advantage:  a greater result in test scores for scientific
knowledge due to the increased comprehensibility of an improved system.  I
recall reading once that the industrial revolution was impossible until the
invention of an accurate timepiece.  Furthermore, changing over to the metric
system has all the advantages inherent in economies of scale.

Now, as I see it, the greatest disadvantage of a decimal time system is that
is that it is not divisable by 3, 4, or 6.  I cannot even predict what
ramifications using one system over the other might entail.  To that end, I
ask to borrow the imaginations of any and all who read this.  However, I
strongly believe in Darwinian mathematics.  All are possible, but only one can
survive.

JAM