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But 12 is evenly divisible in thirds and quarters. Actually pretty useful for a bunch of things. Really it's just too bad we have 10 fingers instead of 12.



Yep, but 10 fingers is what most of us have. I like 12 too but unless you can persuade people to start counting in astrological symbols instead of decimal digits then metric is the way to go.




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