[geeks] Now for something completely geek

Dave Fischer dave at cca.org
Fri Aug 25 02:00:08 CDT 2006


lionel4287 at verizon.net writes:

>>why not decimal time while you're at it?  100 sec/min, 100 min/hr,
>>10 hr/day.  1 new sec = 0.864 old sec.

>Octal.

Oh, octal would be so nice combined with metric:

1/2 = 0.4
1/4 = 0.2
1/8 = 0.1
1/16 = 0.04

Etc.

But we're stuck with 0.125 and such because some caveman didn't
realize his thumbs were for parity.

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