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by ChillyWater 2833 days ago
If it is actually an average of one every 3 minutes 14.159265359 seconds ... now you've got something.
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jemfinch 2833 days ago
The length of the minute and second are arbitrary.
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wongarsu 2833 days ago
You mean not every civilization chooses to make their unit of time multiples of 9,192,631,770 cesium-133 oscillations? /s
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OccamsLaser 2833 days ago
Plus, if they don't use Tau by convention, they aren't even worth discovering in the first place.
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GeorgeTirebiter 2832 days ago
Now you've come full circle. You'll next be suggesting we use IBM 360 computers. http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/z-os/complete_360/
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ChillyWater 2833 days ago
Dream-killer. :P
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thaumasiotes 2833 days ago
That would be meaningless. Pi is 3.14159. But 3 minutes and 14 seconds is 3.23333 minutes. There's no special relationship between the numbers "3" and "14" in different arbitrary bases...
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