If you want to be mad about time then I'd like to introduce you to a little thing I like to call the Gregorian calendar.
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Also why clockwise?
Earth rotates and orbits counter clockwise. It just seems more right
Earth rotates and orbits counter clockwise.
No it doesn't. It depends on the human perception of "up" and "down" which are completely arbitrary. We by convention see the North Pole as the "top" of the world but it could as easily be seen as Antarctica.
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Gift from ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians love 12 & base 60. They also liked 7. Those numbers recur in their mythology.
Americans have a weird fixation with 💯. Where Americans might use percentages, I've seen Japanese plot values in [0, 1] (ie, pure proportions).
It's not about mythology or Mesopotamia. Those numbers are called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN) and are great for doing calculations (especially divisions) in your head because they have a lot of factors. That's why they were used everywhere before calculators were a thing.
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What is this?
My guess is there are only so many conversations you can have over whether a Silvertip Badger is superior to a Boar brush.
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I'll be there at H:00.
In Ethiopia they still use the tradition time where the day starts at the 1:00 which is our 6am. Then 12:00 is our 6PM, and it starts over. So they have 2 cycles of 12 hours, one for daytime, and one for night time. And it felt somewhat more intuitively in conversation too.
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I say we divide the day into 100 sections. No reason really I just think it’d be cool to party until 100 o’clock.
You might like reading about decimal time…
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