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Heh. Yeah, I guess. Maybe I'm an idiot, but the idea of a minute being a unit of a base-60 system didn't occur to me til round the time I was learning about complimentary binary arithmetic.


I think you're not unusual in not having thought about it, but there's value in being able to intuitively extend your understanding of decimal math to cover it.


Yeah, because it isn't required to facilitate the functional understanding of rough time (>=1s/tick) intervals.

I understood how perceiving numerical values in various bases is useful, just not how it applies to the post.




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