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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. (lemmy.world)
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Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I'd be very interested!

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's definitely base independent. It's just that representations of it are typically in base 10 because we as humans typically use base 10, so we show it as such to read it.

Base 10 is not how it is "widely used" though. It is widely used in encoded form. It's not typically shown as a number when displayed for humans.