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A Different Way of Measuring Time: Metric Time (metric-time.com)
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You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 35 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

What is left to say. The Babylonians made a wise choice.

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Damn, that's interesting!

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