On Tue, 04 May 2004 03:20:35 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:


"Neil Gerace" wrote in message
. au...

Another benefit of decimal currency over Lsd (money, that is) is that
suddenly three quarters of the time spent in school on maths could be used
for something other than money sums.

That reminds me of a system we all use that's not base 10...

Time.

I mean come on... 24 hour days? 60 minutes to an hour... 60 seconds, but
powers of 10 for subsecond intervals.

Oh and 7 days in week?

Geesh, who thunk those up!

The Babylonians or someone, as I recall.

And you know what, we seem to manage for the most part.

You've got to admit that 60 is evenly divisible by a lot of numbers.

However, when I was doing my biweekly time cards, I got tangled up now
and then between hours:minutes and hours.(minutes/60). It's really
hard to get 4.30 and 3.30 to add up to 8 when you actually mean 4.5
and 3.5, as determined from 7:30 to 12:00 and 12:30 to 4:00.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer