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		danbruc on April 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) That's why many things in the metric system are designed on a grid with edge length 60 - it gives you many possibilities for subdivisions. For example the dimensions of most furniture is based on this - 30 cm, 45 cm, 60 cm, 90 cm, 120 cm and 240 cm everywhere.

dredmorbius on April 10, 2013 [–]

Not that furniture might not, say, be scaled to fit human proportions or anything funky like that.

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