09-20-2003, 11:17 AM
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Originally posted by TheFLY
So I wonder how the colon became used in measuring time... like 6:30 and 6/30 in math are the same, but why use the colon for measuring time? For the purposes of measuring time it's a different type of division -- you're dividing the measurement of hours and the measurement of minutes OF that our...
So 6:30 is like 30 minutes "of" the hour... and then it resets... Minutes reset at 59, 59.99999, 59.99999999 minutes, 59.999999 seconds... you are always approaching that all important "60" but with the hours, it switches to multiples of 4... So minutes work on more triangular logic, and hours work on more rectangular logic... So 1/3 of an angle in an equilateral triangle is 20 degrees so maybe that explains the emphasis on the :20 in 4:20.
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