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Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. (lemmy.world)

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Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I'd be very interested!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think the benefit of having metric in base 10 rather than 12 is that it matches our numeric base system.

123mm is 12.3cm and 1.23dm and 0.123m.

Converting things in base 12 would be a bit more work, not sure it'd be worth it.

We're not really going around converting time very often.

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