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Yeehaws per McNugget
Considering the majority of Americans are against teaching Arabic numerals, I guess they should do their calculations using Roman numerals or something.
https://images.vexels.com/media/users/3/202437/raw/2a926cb56e26312b11f2be3209b6f8c7-arabic-numbers-design-pack.jpg
What are you trying to tell me? Arabic numerals are the ones in use almost everywhere around the world, so 1,2,3 and so on. The picture shows Eastern Arabic numerals, which while related are not the same thing.
Arabic Numerals usually refers to Western Arabic Numerals (in opposition to the Eastern Arabic Numerals in the image you shared).
Reckoning
While I wish metric was everywhere, this question, worded as it is, seems insulting. Why not ask Brits why they use both? Or invented imperial in the first place? Or read up on why metric isnβt used in the US?
Iβm an advocate for 24hr clocks, metric and the like, but oh well.
wat
Base 8? I think Tom Lehrer wrote a song about it.
Economics
they tried