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[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

So if you have to use an arbitrary unit anyway, why make a new arbitrary unit?

Because whole point of metric is to use powers of ten.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

The SI unit for time is the second. It just happens to be the same length as the imperial second. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years are not SI units.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

12, 24, and 60 are highly composite numbers and easily divisible by more numbers than 10. Also, if you are doing that, go ahead and redefine degrees in a circle and all that jazz too. Go ahead.

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

There has been a "metric" measurement of angles for a long time. The radian. It's pi based instead of 10 based, but it makes way more sense than degrees.

[-] Shenanigore@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago

Yes, it really does. Degrees are arbitrary, radians are derived from the unit circle.

[-] Shenanigore@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago
[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

The unit circle is hardly arbitrary.

[-] Shenanigore@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago
[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

If everything is arbitrary, nothing is arbitrary.

[-] Shenanigore@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Do you even know what arbitrary means?

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Surely its meaning is arbitrary.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago

In the days of doing math by hand, that might have mattered.

Let me introduce you to this little thing called a calculator.

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