Re: adding time segments (HMS+)?? with 41CX? Message #10 Posted by db (martinez, ca.) on 25 Feb 2011, 11:06 a.m., in response to message #9 by Walter B
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Has anybody ever seen 60th of seconds as a measure?
I haven't either. Whole seconds have been good enough for most uses, for most of human history. After all: there are 1.3 million of them in a circle! And as Walter said, when the need and ability to measure smaller divisions came up then there were decimal computers to calculate them. When it's railroading time, you get railroads.
Still; time and angle sexicecimal measurements are beautiful pieces of tradition, and if they weren't more useful than decimal for their purposes they would have disappeared into history.
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