Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I find this deeply unsettling, please delete

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• 1luv8008135@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weird, this feels easier to read. Less grating somehow.

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You left-handed?

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    • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, don’t put us all in the same bag ! I am left-handed and i still got weirded out by it. He’s just a weird guy that may happen to be left-handed.

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• EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have one of these, it was a gag gift from a friend. I’ve had it up so long now though I have to double check which clock in looking at before I tell the time because I’ve got so used to it

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s pretty cool. Also, your username contains an anagram of the name of the man who owns the clock from my comment. That’s also pretty cool.

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• rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also why the seemingly arbitrary graduations, 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds. If it was say 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute, seconds would be close to the same amount of time. Same with latitude and longitude, why 360 degrees in a circle with 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute.

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  • superkret@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s all based on 12, which is nice cause it’s divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
    A system based on 10 gives you issues if you want to divide the year into 4 seasons, the day into morning, midday, evening and night, the compass into cardinal directions, etc…

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  • Harrison@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The units of time we use come from a bronze age civilisation that used base twelve instead of base ten. They’d count on their hands using the finger joints of one for single digits, and then the joints of the other for multiples.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The short explanation is that those numbers are more easily divided by a larger set of denominators. 24 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12. 100 is divisble by 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30.

    Metric is great for scaling up and down ad infinitum, but it sucks for fractions. Fractions are easier for daily use without precision measuring equipment.

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  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s called Decimal time and revolutionary France already tried it.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boy, do the French have a decimal time for ya!

    Of course, you could always go metric

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  • FunkFactory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Other commenters hit on the reasoning, just adding that they’re called highly composite numbers. My favorite!

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, you mean like the order of the Alphabet?

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  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s actually the only non-arbitrary thing in existence. If the alphabet wasn’t in alphabetical order, we’d all be dead right now.

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    • ki77erb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is correct. Alphabetical Order is one of the fundamental laws of nature. A universal constant.

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      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I like how I was joking but we still ratio’d that guy.

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• wahming@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You just flipped the image!

  (/s)

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