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The argument that was always put forward in the past to promote the metric system is that it was in increments of 10, which made the math easy. From an engineering standpoint the advent of computers made that arguement a mute point, as they could just as easily convert inches to feet as millimeters to meters. From a pure engineering standpoint, a base 2 system would be much better, since base 2 math is much faster on a computer (you just shift right or lef by one bit to multiply or divide). It's a bit of a pain to change over, so I doubt that we will now that the main reason for doing it is gone.