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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 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!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We should "just" switch to base-6 (or maybe 12) first

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    AFAIK the system goes back to the old Babylonians who had a base-60 system subdivided into 5 times 12. 5 times 12 could easily be counted using your thumb to count the 12 knuckles on the other fingers and the 5 fingers of the other hand.

    I mean, how amazing is counting like that! I only learned to count to 10 with my fingers. I love the base-10 for its simplicity but base-60, subbase-12 is the shit :D

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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