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There's a handy rule of thumb for this: is the number of seconds per minute (60 aka 2*2*3*5) a weird, random-sounding number that's way too easy to make clean s
by a1369209993 3y ago
There's a handy rule of thumb for this: is the number of seconds per minute (60 aka 2*2*3*5) a weird, random-sounding number that's way too easy to make clean subdivisions out of[0], rather than a nice, math-hostile power of ten? Then it's probably already in American units, unless it's British.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
- juped 3y agoRobespierre wanted to saddle us with metric time too, you know.
- ted_bunny 3y agoThe 60 is from Sumer.
- a1369209993 3y agoIt's in the context of: > I have to stop and think if I need to translate [] to American. and I assume (reasonably though not certainly) that the commentor is not Sumerian.