atrax@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it.message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhy do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it.atrax@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarethrowsbooks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI think the benefit of having metric in base 10 rather than 12 is that it matches our numeric base system. 123mm is 12.3cm and 1.23dm and 0.123m. Converting things in base 12 would be a bit more work, not sure it’d be worth it. We’re not really going around converting time very often.
I think the benefit of having metric in base 10 rather than 12 is that it matches our numeric base system.
123mm is 12.3cm and 1.23dm and 0.123m.
Converting things in base 12 would be a bit more work, not sure it’d be worth it.
We’re not really going around converting time very often.