<story><title>A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world&apos;s population (2017)</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>2500 miles ≈ 4000 km.&lt;p&gt;Guys, switch to metric units already. Thank you.&lt;p&gt;The rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aldanor</author><text>While I live in Europe and I do agree, imagine how nice would it be if the entire world used the duodecimal system today for everything, i.e. 100 was preceded by BB (143). Greeks and Shumers were smart guys - 12 has 4 divisors (excluding itself and 1) while 10 has only 2. Same story with 100 and 144, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world&apos;s population (2017)</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>2500 miles ≈ 4000 km.&lt;p&gt;Guys, switch to metric units already. Thank you.&lt;p&gt;The rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VvR-Ox</author><text>YMMD :D&lt;p&gt;I wonder when the day will come that humanity overcomes these issues without the need to convert values between several systems all the time.</text></comment>