Personal blog. Mostly photos.Daniel PietzschTumblr (3.0; @danielpietzsch)https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? - Scientific American<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes/">Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? - Scientific American</a>: <blockquote> <p>In today’s world, the most widely used numeral system is decimal (base 10), a system that probably originated because it made it easy for humans to count using their fingers.</p> </blockquote> <p>I knew it!</p>https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/post/103977710748https://blog.danielpietzsch.com/post/103977710748Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:39:25 +0100linksnumeral systems