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64 would be more useful, and not too big a change.
by axod 17y ago
64 would be more useful, and not too big a change.
- quizbiz 17y agoAny tiny change when it comes to systems is huge. U.S. teaches but does not rely on the metric system for that reason.
- jacobolus 17y agoWhat? 64 is only divisible by 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32. By contrast, 100 is divisible by 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, and 50, while 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. 64 is only useful if you're writing numbers with binary digits. Since humans don't do that very often, day-to-day, I disagree with you that 64 is a good choice.
- axod 17y agoYou're correct that 60 is more useful when dividing, BUT: Say we had 32 hours in a day, 64 minutes in an hour, 64 seconds in a minute... You could do date arithmetic simply. You could work out the number of seconds by simple bitshifts, rather than having to multiply and divide by 60/24.