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You know there's a bunch of other countries other right? This shouldn't be number 1 on hn.
I always thought hn was impartial and scientific, this is not.
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Huh, I didn't know about this, that feet and inches used to differ across the world. If only they'd done pints, fluid ounces, and cups, etc. too! (Cups are particularly annoying: there's British, US, US Legal, and metric. The best recipe-following advice is that it's never going to matter. But it's annoying.)
I thought the whole point of cups was that the actual quantity didn't matter, so long as your ratios were consistent.
One is 15mL and the other is 20mL.
That's a fair difference, but doesn't seem to matter a whole lot.
What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?... What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. ~ Fredrick Douglas…
1852. "It was a great thing to achieve American Independence when we numbered three millions, but it was a greater thing to save this country from dismemberment and ruin when it numbered thirty millions." ~ Frederick Douglass, 1881. May the United States of America acknowledge what is bad, celebrate what is good, and go on to do greater things in the future.
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Looks like they had 3 fingers per hand, so base 6 seems a likely choice. 6 works great as its divisible by 2 and 3. I wonder what base we would use if we (somehow) had a prime number of fingers. 2, 6, 30, 60?
Opinion: Highly composite numbers make good bases. 2, 6, 12, 60, etc Number of fingers doesn't matter, although you can shoehorn almost any base into them. For example, base 6 lets you count to 5 on one hand and use your other to coujt multiples of 6. This lets you count to 35 on two hands. More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_nu...
As an European this is really cool and unlike others self-loathing Americans here in the comments I understand the idea, humor and originality. Happy 4th USA, you are great today due to the greatness of your forefathers and the men that built this nation.
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1852. "It was a great thing to achieve American Independence when we numbered three millions, but it was a greater thing to save this country from dismemberment and ruin when it numbered thirty millions." ~ Frederick Douglass, 1881. May the United States of America acknowledge what is bad, celebrate what is good, and go on to do greater things in the future.
wypipo. always cherry picking for comfort and absolution.
As an European this is really cool and unlike others self-loathing Americans here in the comments I understand the idea, humor and originality. Happy 4th USA, you are great today due to the greatness of your forefathers and the men that built this nation.
No women were involved?
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