analog time is the epitome of user interface designed to force humans to adapt to what's convenient for the engineers to produce as outputhttps://twitter.com/flglmn/status/977589169424879616 …
base 12 is a superior base for coin systems, it's ridiculously easy to make even change with almost any randomly selected handful of coin denominations.
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And yet the British managed to fuck that up with guineas and 'arf-crowns smh
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the British are the types who would do it on purpose just because it made the world more miserable
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Babylonians had similar concerns. Their number system, time system, and coin system were all very heavily intertwined with their system of agriculture, commerce, and taxation.
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Using it in fantasy settings gets aggravating due to the lack of good terminology in English; 'sixties' can pass for hundreds but 'thirty-six-hundreds' really can't fit for 'thousands', so I wind up making up terms
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also alternative timekeeping systems are rad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Traditional_Time_System …
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