• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I know all about that, but I don’t think we’ll convince people to change everything to base 12, so let’s go with a base 10 clock.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      A base-10 unit circle would be abhorrent. 1/2 of a circle is an important concept, but 1/5th and 1/10th of a circle are rarely used in geometry or trigonometry. Meanwhile, a right angle (1/4 of a circle) would require an ugly fraction, and the angle of an equilateral triangle (1/6th) would require a repeating decimal.

      Think of 12-hour clocks and 360-degree circles as paper bags. When we’re fucking with angular concepts, you do not want to take those bags off Decimal’s head.

    • Andrew@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I just want everything to be switched to 24 instead of 12. Why everyone want to complicate things?

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t put in a secret punchline. It’s a genuine thought. What do you think I did?

        • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Well, I thought I was replying to squirrel, but they say we’ll never get everyone to use base 12 systems so we had better just go to base 10…

          When the entire sae/imperial/whatever is either base 12 or divisible by it already.

          There’s already a perfectly good base 12 system in everyday use, but we’ll never get anyone to accept that so we gotta accept inferior base 10. See the joke?