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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4498957, member: 19165&quot;]Rick Snow was one of the most recent proponents of the 100 point scale, and I wouldn&#039;t exactly call him a neophyte! </p><p><br /></p><p>The 100 point scale just makes sense from a mathematical standpoint. It is a nice, even, round, easily divisible number. There&#039;s a reason the entire world uses the metric system, except for the United States. While we use feet and inches and cups and pounds, with their outdated relationships based on the size of the king&#039;s feet, the rest of the world has a sensible system based on 100s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why do we keep the 70 point scale? Tradition, almost exclusively. How many posts in this thread have elaborated that the 70 point scale was broken from the day it was published? That&#039;s what we&#039;ve always used, that&#039;s what we&#039;ve been based on, and we have no plans to switch. Just like the US will never abandon feet and cups.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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