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60 is the really important number. It does happen to have rather a lot of convenient factors. Cheers Babylon. (I have checked the assertion and it is correct
by gerdesj 9y ago
60 is the really important number. It does happen to have rather a lot of convenient factors. Cheers Babylon.
(I have checked the assertion and it is correct)
- ngcc_hk 9y agoFinally less hate if barbarian. Sorry Babylonian. 10 hour 10 second easier. A quarter pass 7. (Actual 12 is a human number of look from earth. Both chi-na and ... is it a copy.)
- stephengillie 9y agoIt's always bugged me there's no "metric time". 1 metric minute = 100 seconds = 1.667 Babylonian minutes 1 metric hour = 100 metric minutes = 166.7 Babylonian minutes = 2.78 Babylonian hours. 1 day = 8.61 metric hours = 1436 Babylonian minutes = 23.93 Babylonian hours. Thoughts?
- todd8 9y agoI've always thought that if we are redefining time units a better solution might be 100000 metric seconds in a day (making them a bit shorter than the existing 86400 in a day) and otherwise the same relationships you've suggested: 1 metric minute = 100 metric seconds 1 metric hour = 100 metric minutes 1 day = 10 metric hours.
- VMG 9y agoIf rather switch to a base-12 number system
- theoh 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
- collinmanderson 9y agoI believe they split up a circle into 360 degrees because it's close to the number of days in the year.