Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Decimal clock

 This is in the Fotzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. If there were 10 hours in a day, each decimal hour would last for 144 of our normal minutes. Nearly two and half normal hours! Each decimal minute would last for 86.4 normal seconds. The decimal hours would seem ridiculously long compared to normal hours but decimal minutes and decimal seconds might not seem so far out.