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Comment by henrikschroder

> because you can divide things usefully.

Again, this is just familiarity. You think it's super neat that you can divide a cup of whatever by 2 or 3 or 4, but if I tell you to divide it by 5, you're gonna deflect and ask me "who does that?!?"

Imperial works neatly for a small domain of problems, and is useless outside that domain.

Metric is less neat in that small domain, but works equally well everywhere.

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