Re: measuring time

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From: Joe <joe@...>

> Well, divide the day into equal parts.  Divide that division into
> more,and soforth.  That's how the hour/minute/second timescale was
> developed.
More specifically, the Babylonian 360/12/30/24/60/60 system was derived
by use of circles, picking numbers with a decent number of factors --
i.e. where the circle could be split into equally-sized pieces with
decent variety of numbers of pieces.

The original Thagojian people (*way* back in distant real-history,
before their con-history placed them in time and space where they are
today, when the language had 144 consonants and was a little like
Arabic mixed with Welsh) split the day into binary fractions -- 1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and so on. The names for units of time were derived from
the number N where the length of time in question was 1/2^N.



Paul