this interesting realization sent me into a diff goose chase in which i wondered why a circle has 360 angles and who decided that. turns out Babylonians (1895– 539 BC) used a base 60 system (prob related to the below issue as well) and it goes from there:...
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Berna Devezer
ha so TIL that there are no words for 1/60th of a second in English language??? we call it “salise” in Turkish and it’s something i’ve always taken for granted just like hours, minutes, seconds. so very strange to notice this just now!
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