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August 4, 2021 02:21 pm GMT
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Why 'time' uses the sexagesimal system of counting
Wonder where we got the sexagesimal system? 60 seconds seems awful unwieldy in our world of base 10.
It's the Sumerians.
Someone on Reddit's ELI5 forum asked:
"Why do we hit a limit of 60 for seconds and minutes, but then decimal for hours and milliseconds?" — Read the rest
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