Ted Ashtom wrote:
>I'm interested . . . could we go to metric time, then also?  Only 10
hours in a
>day, 100 minutes in each hour and 100 seconds in each minute.  Would
make lots
>of things considerably easier once we got use to it . . . :-)

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.

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