– Why is time measured in multiples of 60? Wouldn’t a base 10 form of measurement make more sense in applications like physics?
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It’s been tried before. I believe the French tried it for a while. Pretty sure they were the most recent. It just doesn’t really work. Nature dictates the rules, we just fit our ideas around it.
The real question is why aren’t we using a base 12 numbering system for everything else? Because it makes a lot more sense when you really look into it. Obviously is because we have ten digits (fingers), and things grew from there.
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