Project GutenbergThe ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour
A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.
By Jocelyn Timperley
Books about Time at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16707
Ray McCarthy@gutenberg_org
See also "From 1 to 0" revised as the 3 volume "History of Numbers".
There were also originally 13 months (moons)/Zodiacs but due to Sumerian base 12 and 20 and 60 the Babylonians changed to 12 which also is easier for maths than 13,
See also "From 1 to 0" revised as the 3 volume "History of Numbers".
There were also originally 13 months (moons)/Zodiacs but due to Sumerian base 12 and 20 and 60 the Babylonians changed to 12 which also is easier for maths than 13,
Space@gutenberg_org I read that the reason was that 60 had many more integer divisors than did 10. 1,2,3,4,5,6 for a start.
hnapel@original_peterm @gutenberg_org
My thinking too, while that observation is on point, if there's no historical record, it's no proof that was the reason, but to me it sounds better than counting the joints on your hand that has a sort of implicit assumption that those guys were simple, while in fact they had advanced mathematics.
As far as I was informed the 10 day week tanked because of the horses, horses could not work for 9 days straight instead of 6, so all the horses were exhausted and that hurt the economy and that was the end of it.
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