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Yes, it's a sample, like how sample programming code snippets use names such as Foo and Bar. Similarly braindead to do it in practice! Though imperial-system u
by kroltan 3y ago
Yes, it's a sample, like how sample programming code snippets use names such as Foo and Bar. Similarly braindead to do it in practice!
Though imperial-system users don't mix units like that, it's not like "20 minutes 30 seconds", they just use fractions or decimals as appropriate. "20 and a half minutes" or "20.5 minutes". You'd just say "17.8 yards".
(Metric user here, with an appreciation for base 12)
- jdmichal 3y agoI wish our number system was duodecimal. Then we probably would have ended up with base-12 metric, which would have been freaking awesome.
- kragen 3y agounits supports the dozenal system by default You have: QuedraTim You want: hour * 1 / 1 You have: QuedraTim You want: minutes * 60 / 0.016666667 You have: TrinaTim You want: minutes * 5 / 0.2 You have: DunaTim You want: minutes;seconds 25 seconds You have: QuenaTim You want: hour * 12 / 0.083333333 You have: Grafut You want: Definition: gravity Tim^2 = 0.29558045 m You have: QuedraGrafut You want: Definition: 12^4 Grafut = 6129.1562 m
- kragen 3y agoimperial system users totally do mix units like that: 5 feet 10 inches, two pounds and six ounces, nine stone and six pounds nobody has a tape measure marked in decimal yards or decimal feet, so nobody is going to say 17.8 feet or 17.8 yards sexagesimal system users also mix units like this: 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 5.2 seconds same for larger units of time: 5 years, 2 months, and 12 days (which is an example units(1) can't hack)