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oh cay, with the 'spring forward' thingy coming up (which had nothing to do with my train of thort!) this is quite topical, but it screwed with my head a bit.... how freaky wud it be if there were 10 hours in day and 100 minutes in an hour!? Can u imagine it? Maybe there could be 10 days in a week, 3 weeks to a month, and then some number like 10 months to a year.... y did we hav to use crap numbers like 60, 60, 24, 7, 31, 12 and 365? |
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'cause the number three has scientific precedence, and the number 10 only has mathematic significance- we didn't invent 3's relationship with nature and matter and all that, the only reason why we count to tens however is ... well... hold up your hands, and i'm sure you'll figure it out |
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the only reason 10 has significance is because we decided to live life using base 10 |
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sorry if you want i can go into depth explaining why we have so many days in a week etc.. etc.. and all that- but i really shouldn't have to, i mean, it's not like i get paid to ramble on like this, i just have no social life |
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Blame the ancient Sumerians for 60 - they had a mad counting system. |
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yeah but who can stay mad at the sumerians? they're sooooooooooooo cute |
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the number 7 is so popular among so many different cultures because that is the number of moving objects in the sky u can see (or, the ancient people who influenced our culture/numbersystems) with only the naked eye: venus mars saturn jupiter the moon the sun ...hmm..i cant remember #7, maybe it was earth itself (if its NOT earth, and u can name the seventh 'hevenly body' please post it!) hehe.. remember the simpsons when the intellectuals take over control of springfield? ...and they switch to metric time? haha... lol mmm... ya thats about all i can contribute to this thread : ) |
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Diemax: lol AMinal: Mercury? |
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"hehe.. remember the simpsons when the intellectuals take over control of springfield? ...and they switch to metric time? " |
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really? i was thinking mercury but i wasn't sure.. and the simpsons link: LOL! the comic guy is the best:) |
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re: metric time: Principal Skinner: "Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment" hehe... http://www.wavking.com/kwyjibo/10/aabf18/metric%20time.WAV |
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I like how comics have a special DOUBLE SIZE or HOLOGRAM cover at certain issues. 50, 75, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, etc... numbers are weird. It's also funny how people celebrate their 10th anniversary like it's SOOOO much more important than their 9th or 10th. We are weird people. |
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i personally like the twelve. instead of clocks to 10 hours we could could change our number system to base twelve. |
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very creative heading, me likes |
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It's very easy to use 12 for counting as well...(and hence 60)... Hold you hand up...Each of your fingers has 3 parts so to count to 12, use your thumb to tap each pad and count & you go up...easy... Using 2 hands, you can keep store of each time the inital hand goes beyond Twelve (using the same scheme with the other Fingers & Thumbs)... You can easily count to 12 * 12 this way...144... Thats a crap explanation, but give it a go...Shows Base 10 is the only "natural" counting system... Nie little party tricky anyway.... |
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