Changing from base 10 to base 12? Do you know that we would have to start from scratch? And the cost of it would be mind boggling. This divisibility is too small an advantage to justify such mayhem and havoc. Using metric allows me to divide up to 1/4 (0.25) as well. No way. No metric clock on one hand, no duodeciomal maths on the other! Yes to SI and ISO 8601!
> Datum: 23/07/07 02:50 PM > Van: "Rocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > CC: > Onderwerp : [USMA:39158] Metric clock must be 24 hours > > Brij is right. We can't get rid of the 24 hour clock because it is > tied so closely with the circle. In fact, 24 hours is *perfect* > because it is the lowest number that keeps the special angles of > trigonometry as integers: > > 2 hours -> 30 degrees > 3 hours -> 45 degrees > 4 hours -> 60 degrees > 6 hours -> 90 degrees > > What we *really* ought to do is to switch our whole mathematics to > base 12 so that instead of a 24 hour circle (where each hour is pi/12 > radians), we could say we have a 20 hour circle (and each hour is > pi/10 radians). > > Do you think we could get the BWMA on board? They've been wanting to > bring back the inch because it has more factors {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12}. > The new SI would have kilo = 12^3 = 1728 (1000 base 12). > > Then, while everyone was busy relearning the multiplication table, we > could finally switch to Esperanto, cxu ne? Kompreneble! :) > > rocky > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz > > > >
