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...ridiculous things like 16 oz. in a pound...

Perhaps, but it should be noted that powers of 2 are actually more compatible with the digital world than are powers of 10. (Heck, if we'd evolved with 4 digits on each hand, we'd find the decimal-based metric system absurd, since in base eight a meter would be 144 centimeters...)



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