Metric is easier to use by far. I cook a lot and it's especially nice for baking. Measuring everything with a scale in grams gives better and more consistent results. Base 10 and base 6 are so much easier to use once you learn them, rather then having to memorize dozens of different conversions and equivalencies.
Actually base 12 (what a lot of imperial units use) has a lot going for it. Its highly composite (has 4 divisors 2,3,4,6) while base 10 (decimal/metric) only has 2 and 5. This makes it really easy to do a lot of division or fractions ( 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/6 are pretty easy to figure out when using base 12). Its already used in a lot of places, time is in base 12, grocers sell a lot of items in dozens or gross (12 dozen). It wouldn't be "too" hard to count on your fingers with it, since you could use the knuckles of your fingers instead of each whole finger (4 fingers with 3 parts each, using your thumbs to point to the number you are counting, you could actually easily count to 144 this way) The main problem with it is the fact that all our numbers still originate from base 10. We'd have to completely change 11 and 12 to some single symbol (like in base 16 they use 123456789ABCDEF0) and getting the entire world population to change over to something like that would be extremely hard
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