Math Memes

Aand that's Numberwang!

Well, it's still a far plan than the time the French tried to force time into base 10......

Which might have been the first documented demonstration of the saying "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."

The person who made the clock copied it from a sundial. You can’t say it’s not logical because that’s how physics works.

The U.S. 12h clock is stupid: 12PM + 1h = 1PM

If you don't use a 24h clock at least do it like the Japanese, who also use the 12h clock and have: 0:00 PM + 1h = 1:00 PM

86,400 is not a perfect cube (or any other power) so unless you change the number of seconds in a day you’re not getting a way to perfectly represent 3 different sized time measurements in the same circle without something like 6=30m/30s

We could just change time… again… to make seconds slightly longer and have there be 85,184 seconds in a day. And then 44 seconds in a minute and 44 minutes in an hour and 44 hours in a day…. But 44 is a lot of numbers to put around a clock just because you’re too lazy to multiply by 2 or 5, shit 2nd graders can do so…. Nah.

So ancient Mesopotamians used to count on their hands slightly different. They wouldn't count their thumbs, instead they would count each knuckle with their thumb so, 3 knuckles per finger and 4 fingers each hand

fun fact during the si process there was also a proposal to make a minute 100 seconds and an hour 100 minute and a day 10 hours (and adjust the second length so that it still syncs up with the sun ofc) but it never got implemented, probably because auf big clock-manufecturing puts on alu hat

There are watches that are called "slow watch" which has a single hand and a dial that goes from 0 to 24. They kinda make more sense than regular watches.

Reminds me of this SNL sketch: https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk