On January 24, 2019 at 20:31, davidcasemore said...
The reason we have ten fingers (I'm counting a thumb as a finger) and ten toes is so we can easily work with divisions of ten. God figured, in all its wisdom, to give us these groups of ten digits because it assumed that the entire world would be smart enough to come up with, and use, the Metric System. So much for all-powerful and all-knowing!
I remember learning Metric in 7th Grade, in the late-'70s and hearing people say that it would never take off here, in the US. I could never understand why they were so resistant to it.
