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Arguably if we are sticking with the existing definitions of days and years the reason we use a base-60 is because that is a degrees system. We are respecting (
by WorldMaker 6y ago
Arguably if we are sticking with the existing definitions of days and years the reason we use a base-60 is because that is a degrees system. We are respecting (approximate) circular travel. It would almost make more sense to express time in radians in that case as that is the metric measure of angle. We are about 3/4 Tau through this year, and I'm writing this at about 1.2 Pi on this day.
- rtkwe 6y ago60 also has a lot of nice divisors and lays out nicely on a circle. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. If we're going to do radian measures why not just skip the extra tau and just say we're .75 through the year?
- WorldMaker 6y agoThat's exactly what I think would happen if we tried to use angular units for days or years (or even months): we'd either end up back where we started with a ~360-based system with lots of divisors or a percentage system. Exactly why I choose to use Tau in at least one example because radian systems using Tau are much are obviously "percent of the pie chart" than Pi examples.