Re: SI
Instead of 9,192,631,770 periods of the...blah blah blah...of caesium-133 atom, why not make it 10 billion.
This desire for base ten measurements is completely anthropocentric.
At least it's not an irrational number. Greg Bear's Anvil of Stars features aliens with no concept of discrete numbers. (Whether such a species could develop advanced technology is another matter.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
