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minus-squareDjehngo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoHow do you feel about hours/minutes/days, degrees(for measuring angles) and pre-decimilozation currency?
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoPentadozenal (sextadecimal) time is very cool and sexy, same with angles. But I have no patience for nickels and shillings, that stuff is bullshit. We should standardise measurements to the dozenal metric system. A mometer should be a dozen dozen dozen meters (1000 meters in dozenal). A circle should have 260 degrees. That’s two gross and six dozen, pronounced as two-gro six-do.
How do you feel about hours/minutes/days, degrees(for measuring angles) and pre-decimilozation currency?
Pentadozenal (sextadecimal) time is very cool and sexy, same with angles. But I have no patience for nickels and shillings, that stuff is bullshit.
We should standardise measurements to the dozenal metric system. A mometer should be a dozen dozen dozen meters (1000 meters in dozenal).
A circle should have 260 degrees. That’s two gross and six dozen, pronounced as two-gro six-do.