Sort of. We’re a bunch of mutants. I have webbed feet and I’m a twin. My other sister would have been a tiny person (but took steroids to grow) and my brother has Aspergers.
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I’m a mutant also, but mine is mental. 
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The whole units and subdivisions of measurements is an amazing thing to study. A lot of it seems to be based on what is easy to divide in half or double. It doesn’t seem to make sense for Imperial measurements. First to have 12 inches and then have a different scale for the subdivisions but it does when you break it down.
Reading up on the history of the carat/karat as a unit of weight of gold or diamonds is a good lesson in how the vagaries of history and the human need for standards mesh together.
In my final paper for my BA in philosophy, I used the idea of perfect pitch and the well-tempered clavier as a vehicle to explore universals. I have been haunted by metaphysical poltergeists ever since.
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Same here! 
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The brother and sister? Or just the extra digits??? 
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Haha. Just the digits. 
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Best example of unclear antecedent I have ever seen in the wild. Sharp eyes.
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I love a good garden path sentence.
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Good to hear! I was on the board of directors for an industrial laser cutting company. We ventured into printed quilting rulers (laser cut blanks). We had great challenges with managing temperatures to keep the measures accurate. We finally nailed it. We were screen printing the measures, so it may have been an issue with the screens responding to temps. Perhaps laser etching was a better choice.
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I am curious as to whether or not the graduations are vector scored or raster engraved. This is not a question. But in comparison to my rulers, the ticks on the zodiac ruler don’t have any zigzag effect as far as I can tell from this photo. Again, just wondering out loud.
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Yea, sorry, I don’t recall what I used.
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Here is the logic behind Imperial Measurements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
I like to keep a few Barley or Poppy Seeds in my pockets just in case
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I had no idea it was all tied together so well.
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You’ve convinced me, there’s no reason to switch to metric it’s all so much clearer now.w
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As i say, apart from the need to keep a few Barley seeds in your pocket (and lets face it, who doesn’t do that anyway) it is a perfectly logical structure that has helped make Liberia and Myanmar the economic powerhouses they are today
Jokes aside most of my US friends (in the US as opposed to OS and thus in Metric countries) are able, if not comfortable with the Metric system, unless they were in the military or scientific community then they were pretty fluent.
Interestingly I used to assist with Carpentry work in Japan, on old style structures, and there we used a mix of millimeters, fractions of an inch and the Japanese native measurement of ‘sun’ (pronouncing ‘Su’ as in Soup) - which was a bit larger than an inch. Now THAT was confusing.
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Sounds like an exceptional family…being “normal” is over rated. 
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Seems to me the logic of using metric, or SI units, is the whole base ten, or the just moving the decimal point thing. Great for when pencil and paper, or the abacus, was the primary computational method. If you’re arguing to replace feet and pounds and gallons with another measurement system you should jump into the future - go base sixteen; go with something that is bitwise math friendly; or if you really want to make a jump go with something that is quantum computing friendly.
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I would not mind that at all!
I used to program in Assembly way way back and learned to love Hexadecimal.
Not quite sure that most people, who see even algebra as maths danger-zone, are gonna jump at the thought of binary number systems.
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I loved Assembly…way back then…lol. Not sure I could do it now though…lol
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I know I couldnt. And I was really good at it 
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