How 1minute is equal to 60seconds proof
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Why does one minute equal 60 seconds? What features are considered to decide this number?
Short answer : It was easy to use 60.
Short answer : It was easy to use 60.Long answer:
People sometime in history realized that there was a need to keep track of time, but due to lack of any technology they had to rely on shadows during the day and stars at the night. They divided 1 (solar) day into 24 equal parts, which made it easy to keep track of it. Why 24 you ask, and how did it help. Well it is believed that the number 24 was chosen partly because our hands have 24 (12 each) clear division on our fingers (except the thumb), which was how people used to count back then. We call that each division an hour.
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hey mate here is your answer,
At that time decimal system was not invented and people were still figuring out fractions. If you ask someone back then what is 6/5, no one would had answered 1.2 , at best people would had said 1+1/5. So it was easier to use a number which has many factors in it so that fractions were not a problem for most number of cases. As you can see 60 has lots of factors; 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 and 60. (Where 2,3 and 5 are primes) .Just by looking up at an example will help you understand.Take 2 cases,
Case 1: 1 hour = 60 minutes
Case 2: 1 hour = 50 minutes
It is much easier to divide to divide 1 hour into (say) 3 equal parts which people can count in case 1 rather that case 2. Without decimal system 60/3 = 20 , where as 50/3 = 16 +2/3 which was not a good way to handle time back then where you constantly have to use complicated division in daily use.
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