Daniel Pietzsch

Personal blog. Mostly photos.

All posts tagged with #numeral systems

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? - Scientific American

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.

I knew it!