• Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s measuring speed, speed of light is 1 dumbass.

      Which proves God is American (anything except metric)

      • Teppa@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I learned recently that it was the Babylonians who invented the hour and the minute as a unit of time, and they used base 60, which I thought was pretty neat. Then we created seconds and milliseconds in base 10.

        • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          IIRC, they picked 60 because it could be evenly divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 which allowed them to stick to whole numbers more easily.