A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Timemetric-time.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: interestingasfuck@lemm.eehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnews@radiation.partyhackernews@derp.foo Einar ( @original_reader@lemm.ee ) Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.ml • 1 month ago message-square22fedilinkarrow-up186
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minus-square Coelacanth ( @Coelacanth@feddit.nu ) linkfedilink22•1 month agoBoth 12 and 60 are superior highly composite numbers[1] which makes mental math easy. 60 in particular is a very nice number because it has 12 divisors and is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 6. 1 ↩︎
minus-square OneMeaningManyNames ( @whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoWhat is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.
minus-square Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agohttps://youtu.be/rDDaEVcwIJM?si=M-a9Xd_rEw6lXCsg
Both 12 and 60 are superior highly composite numbers[1] which makes mental math easy. 60 in particular is a very nice number because it has 12 divisors and is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers 1 through 6.
1 ↩︎
What is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.
https://youtu.be/rDDaEVcwIJM?si=M-a9Xd_rEw6lXCsg