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If it is actually an average of one every 3 minutes 14.159265359 seconds ... now you've got something.

The length of the minute and second are arbitrary.

Dream-killer. :P

You mean not every civilization chooses to make their unit of time multiples of 9,192,631,770 cesium-133 oscillations? /s

Plus, if they don't use Tau by convention, they aren't even worth discovering in the first place.

Now you've come full circle. You'll next be suggesting we use IBM 360 computers. http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/z-os/complete_360/

That would be meaningless. Pi is 3.14159. But 3 minutes and 14 seconds is 3.23333 minutes. There's no special relationship between the numbers "3" and "14" in different arbitrary bases...

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