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Its more base 10. Arguably, the babylonian base 60 system would be more useful for measurement.
Using the same base for regular numbers and for measurements is the most useful, no? We happen to use base 10. That's going to be hard to change, but sure, it would have been better to choose a more divisable number, maybe 12.