As an old man I still use the good old units.  There was nothing special
about a cosen standard used in Paris and the metre was based upon the
division of what was thought to be the distance from the pole to the

Fred Hoyle tried to persuade the authorities to use a duodecimal system
when the UK went crazy and chaged to metric.  His reasons were exactly
those which you state , the simplicity of factorization of the numer 12.
73, Roger.