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aragot on Jan 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A positive leap second will be introduced at the e...

Why are you all looking for base-10 hours, when it's rather the base-10 which is wrong??? Numbers should be switched to base-12. I mean we often need to divide 1kg by halves, quarters and thirds, and it should fall even.

cortesoft on Jan 6, 2015 [–]

We should do base 16, though, so it lines up with binary.

gchpaco on Jan 6, 2015 | [–]

Not divisible by three, which comes up a lot. 12 is superior.

60 is probably best, tho.

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