• mlfh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    One benefit of base 12 and base 60 over base 10 for everyday use with things like time is simple factorization. You can divide 12 hours evenly into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixths, and 60 minutes evenly into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, etc. With base 10, you’ve just got halves and fifths.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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                1 year ago

                i’m reading here on .ml and it looks like my reply was to squirrel and then you replied to me. what are you seeing?

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                  1 year ago

                  Hold on. I did get notification with your comment, but… hmm… Since we both replied to the same guy, the app thought that it’s logical to send notification about “adjacent/neighbor” reply. I thought that notifications are only about direct replies. Strange. Yes, you did not replied to me. Oopsy. :)

                  P.S. I’m currently using Liftoff.

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                    1 year ago

                    that’s crazy. over here on the .ml webui deep in the weeds comments dont expand right. excited to see what kind of api call sanitization ends pu getting implemented to make instances talking to each other and to clients end up getting implemented.