Originally Posted by
Leinster
in fairness, I will say that when I go home to Ireland and see the newly developed roads, buildings etc that weren’t there when I was younger, I see a bit more sterility in the modern designs there than in the US, and I wonder if it’s that things there are built to decimal ratios of 10 and 5 and 2, versus the more organic ratios of 2, 3 and 4 that can more easily be done with feet and inches.
You know, you have something there. European infrastructure is generally more puny, less generously designed than North American ways of doing things. It always strikes me whenever I travel over there. And it carries over to everything. I can't say much about UK, Ireland parts since the heritage there is British Imperial system which is also based on 12. I believe they only converted to metric sometimes in the twentieth century and it probably wears thin, that is inconsistent, same as in US?