Coelacanth@kbin.socialtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it.
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1 year agoYes, 60 is pretty much a goldilocks number that is small enough to be easily graspable for most humans, but still a highly composite number (11 factors!) so it is neatly divisible into many smaller units.
Exactly. It’s harder than it sounds to ask the right “why”.