Metric Time Clock
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Metric Time Clock
  • @[email protected]
    9•1 year ago

    I had this installed on my old phone: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mathi_amorim.emmanuel.metrictime/
    Had the widget under the 24 hour clock. Got a rough feeling of how metric time translates to part of the day.
    But I that made me slowly realise that the popularity of number 12 is not there without reason.
    The fact that it is nicely divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 is probably a very big contributor to it’s significance.
    Which then made me wonder, would metric system factors of of 12 be even better than the current metric system that has factors of 10?
    Why even 10? Just because we have 10 fingers and that made it easy to count?
    There is so called DuoDecimal system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
    Some cultures actually use it. In that case, counting oh hands is not done by raising and lowering fingers, but instead by having one finger on one hand used as a marker, while the sections of fingers on the other hand are used as a 1-12 table:
    duodecimal-hand-counting
    Numberfile did a whole video about this:
    https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=U6xJfP7-HCc

    • LazaroFilm
      4•1 year ago

      It also makes sense in computer programming. One bit (0 or 1) One byte = 8 bit (1011 1100)

      it does make more sense but retraining your brain to a different math base is hard.

      From there, one can wonder… , why don’t we count with Pi as our base, that would help a lot with measuring circular things.

      Edit: 1 byte = 8 bit, not 4

          • @RubberElectrons
            1•1 year ago

            No problemo, I only remember because of how painful failing a quiz in a very difficult class early in my education was haha.

            • LazaroFilm
              2•1 year ago

              I honestly don’t know what I was thinking. I’ve been parsing I2C byte communication tables all week I should know this but my brain is just fried.