Information Is BeautifulMeasurement unit differences between the U.S.A. and most of the world.
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Platypusman@infobeautiful Everywhere: Day = 24 hours, or 1440 minutes, or 84,600 seconds; Compass = 360 degrees, 21,600 minutes, 1,404,000 seconds
mirabilos@Dawilson999 @infobeautiful base-60 that makes sense for round things and has been in use since babylonian times, fwiw, but if you hate it, you can use gon
@mirabilos Very good point, although I think the unit of measure for time is what really screws up the metric system, or SI as universal standards. Perhaps if there were twenty hours in a day?
@Dawilson999 people tried decimal time before, in various ways. It just doesn’t work, the maths doesn’t work for it.
Metric does not mean 100% decadic. The ways time and positions on circles/globes are measured is hexadecadic but still regular, which the imperialistic units are not.
@Dawilson999 that being said, countries that do not use the american imperialistic units generally have higher literacy, so perhaps we see no problem with the hexadecadic system for such cases.
@mirabilos That sounds like correlation to me. There are plenty of intelligent people still using imperialistic units. That’s what conversion calculators and computers are for.
@Dawilson999 uhm… you know, we do it in the head