> That's why there are 360 degrees.
Not that these are exclusive, but I thought it's a rounding of 365.25 days a year stemming from Egypt. 360 is a pretty useful number of degrees for a starry sky that changes ince a night.
Not that these are exclusive, but I thought it's a rounding of 365.25 days a year stemming from Egypt. 360 is a pretty useful number of degrees for a starry sky that changes ince a night.
60: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
100: 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50
360: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 72, 90, 120, 180
¹ https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SuperiorHighlyCompositeNumber....
By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a "third".
"minute" comes from latin "pars minuta" and the "i" should be pronounced like in "minimum"
> By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a "third".
It should be "tertia". I found that in German and Polish it was used that way, but don't know about english:
Commodores had a 1/60 second "jiffy" for timing interrupts, that's all I could find.