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Yeah everyone had their archaic human-derived measures but every city on the Rhine had a different system.

If you were a cologne cabbage trader and had 100 cologne pounds of cabbage, the would be 104 pounds in Düsseldorf, 98 pounds in Mainz, 91 in Karlsruhe and 102 in Frankfurt.

Wonderful human derived measurements.

I get the impression some people think the whole world was English imperial units and then we started to turn metric on a whim.

Metric is wonderful for international and interregional trade and communication. There's practically only one blank spot on that map.

But still occupying the westbank of the Mississippi

... de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé!

Noooøøø, you forgor °

She isn't called Dame Rational.

Even in the old testament he punishes his nation pretty hard for forsaking the poor and the stranger and the widow and for being corrupt, bending the law for bribes and giving rich and well known people advantages over others.

Looked like a whaling harpoon haha

Sunflower seeds and apples, sparkling water and cold coffee.

The only way to know about 67 is if he talked to his kids.

You're totally right, I have to check my biases.
Maybe we can find some Anglo-Saxon words to describe these shapes since obv not everyone has the greek numbers memorised.
A hexagon could be a sixpoint, or a sixcorner, or a sixedge, or a sixangle. What sound more well rounded to you?

We do that in German, I bet you could pick out the meaning of these words: Viereck, Fünfeck, Sechseck, Siebeneck, Achteck, Neuneck.

I read under 3 replies, that you don't think they explain the frequency.
But they're the answers given by most and also the one that I would give. Maybe they do explain the frequency. Maybe our communities here are just more full of self doubt or self reflection than other websites.

Octagon, but yeah