minus-squareSpooneyOdin@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•I think that guy was eating the gluelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoThere is a logical reason why numbers like 12, 24, and 60 are used in a lot of systems. They are highly composite numbers so they have lots of prime factors which means there are lots more options to break them into whole groups. linkfedilink
minus-squareSpooneyOdin@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•I think that guy was eating the gluelinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 year agoThat’s pretty cool! The French actually had a decimal time system after the revolution, but they eventually abandoned it. linkfedilink
There is a logical reason why numbers like 12, 24, and 60 are used in a lot of systems. They are highly composite numbers so they have lots of prime factors which means there are lots more options to break them into whole groups.