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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't decimalize time, instead dozenalize our numbers! Twelve is such a better building block than ten. Pretty much all math becomes way easier using dozenal numbers instead of decimal ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With base 12 you can actually get a result for 1/3

[–] mnemonicmonkeys 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But not for 1/5

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Big Decimal has brainwashed the population into thinking that 5 is a good number instead of the terrible prime number that it is. It should be clumped in with 7 and 11 as Bad Numbers when you're dealing with anything except for 10s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.