Thus it was written in the epistle of Rick Brooks,
> This goes back to the reason some think a  12 inch foot is more
> convienient than a
> 10 centimeter meter.  While 100 is evenly divisible (from 1 - 12) by 1
> (of course),
> 2, 4, 5, and 10,  60 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12
> giving us more ways to
> evenly divide the hour.

Quite true.  In that case, it should be considerably more convenient to go to a
60-based monetary system :-).  We get the 60 for minutes and seconds from the
Babylonians, I believe, but we didn't have the sense to keep their base 60
system overall.  I'd be fairly easy to talk in to going to one or the other
consistently, but this constant conversion back and forth is a pain.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist,
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several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some
measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
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