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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I hate the idea of metric time (for a lot of use cases metric is still awesome).

12 and 60 can be easily divided by 2, 3, 4, 6. 60 also by 5 and 10. Even for 8 it's still kind of easy.

For 10 or 100 division is easy for 2, 5 and 10 and okay-ish for 4.

The 12/60 (and 360 degrees of a circle) are such an elegant system!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

makes sense in a world without much fractions or the decimal system. You want to get the most divisors for your buck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

IMHO especially in a setting like time where fractions are very common (like "half an hour"), being able to represent fractions with whole numbers is very convenient.

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