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A comment on Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013). Parent comment

Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by taejo on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @09:20AM (#20155121)
> it really isn't simpler with 10 and 100.

Only if you ignore the complexity of teaching a whole population to do arithmetic in a different base.

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Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by jlarsen on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:49AM (#20156492)
Not what I said. I said that, sub-dividing days is not really simpler with base 10, and that sub-dividing time is pretty important practical aspect of time-keeping.
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Re:Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) by taejo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:38AM (#20162538)
Repeating the same thing you said before isn't the best way of clarifying what you mean, but fair enough, I do now understand what you're trying to say.
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