"The metric system is all about decimals, which are easy on the modern brain but not so much when it comes to physically dividing things. Pizzas don't get cut into five or ten slices for a reason. Far from natural or classical, the metric system is a product of the heightened rationalism that marked the Enlightenment" (John Bemelmans Marciano, Whatever Happened To The Metric System? 8).
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