Comment by nancyminusone

Too few divisors of place values. The idea you would pick something that isn't evenly divisible by at least 3 or 4 was a mistake.

This one isn't metric's fault to be fair. That's just what you get for inventing numbers before inventing math.

Makes me wonder what would have happened if 'French numbers' in base 12, 36 or 60 were introduced at the same time.

People got used to working in octal.or hexadecimal in the past for computers, doesn't seem like it would have been as big of a change as you think.