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yeah but there is an extremely good reason for using base 12/60 for time and just in general. I wish people had thought this through before adopting the metric
by whiddershins 13y ago
yeah but there is an extremely good reason for using base 12/60 for time and just in general. I wish people had thought this through before adopting the metric system. Frankly, I don't think they were as smart as they thought they were.
I wish money were at least base 12.
- yefim 13y agoCould you please elaborate? What is the good reason?
- Mindless2112 13y ago60 is highly composite (divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). 12 is a highly composite (divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6). This is a nice property for a numbers used for unit quantities because a common operation on unit quantities is division by small numbers. So it's actually kind of unfortunate that we don't all have 6-fingered hands.
- whiddershins 13y agoWhen was the last time you tried to split a check evenly between three friends? Because it can feel like it takes a third of an hour to figure it out. :-)