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[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/29/21 9:19 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/29/21 5:55 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
>> My problem with words such as DAA is that I constantly have to look them up to see exactly what they actually do. Finding alternate uses it all about knowing what they actually do. I know what they were put there for ( to keep banker happy ).
>> I constantly see people claiming how much better decimal is than the English system of meassurment. I don't really think that much of the decimal number system. If we'd only been born with 8 fingers on each hand, computers would have been so much easier. Thing like powers of 2 are easier to understand in binary.
>> Such is life. If only we'd known.
>> Dwight
> 
> Such as 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 50 seconds in a
> minute?
> 
> Although decimal time has been proposed numerous times, somehow we can't
> shake our Babylonian roots, even if we don't have 60 fingers.

And what's with these 12 months of different lengths?  :-)

bill