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>"It was useful for sailors to be able to divide the day into shifts, so our day is the most divisible number of hours long." Is there a source for specificall
by nonbel 8y ago
>"It was useful for sailors to be able to divide the day into shifts, so our day is the most divisible number of hours long."
Is there a source for specifically "sailors"? Also:
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 = 120
120 hrs would be even more divisible (including by 5 and 10). So really they should have used 120 hrs per day consisting of 12 minutes each instead of 24 hours of 60 minutes each.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoBack when I discovered how flexible the number 12 was this was something I thought would be awesome. (120 "hour" days). So much better than the metric proposal for 10 "hour" days (so called "decimal time").
- droidist2 8y ago120 hour days would be pretty cool, then you could say things like "Oh my god, it's almost 90."
- simonh 8y agoBut then you can't count to 120 on one hand, whereas you can count to 12 by pointing to the joints of your fingers with your thumb. Also since you have four fingers and three joints on each finger it makes it easy to count in groups of those numbers, by counting up or across the fingers.