Customary American vs Metric

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[–]pulverize 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I could explain it to you but I can't understand it for you

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nothing about the concept of a base-12 system is actually hard to grasp, and you possess no actual "understanding" here. All you're doing is performing mental gymnastics, trying to avoid acknowledging that you had no real understanding of what "base 12" actually meant in the first place.

Let me give you a list:

Binary.

Octal.

Decimal.

Duodecimal.

Hexadecimal.

That's base 2, 8, 10, 12, and 16. We measure time in one of those bases. The base we measure it in sure as fuck isn't 12. If you're not retarded then you know which base it actually is.

Or you can keep pretending that "duodecimal" is a difficult concept to grasp. Apparently it is for you, since you think that's the system we use to measure time.