Math Memes

The clock evolved out of the sundial. 12 hours on the clock makes more sense if you think of it that way.

The sound of Babylonian growling intensifies... (Babylonian / Sumerian cultures used the base 12/60 system)

Actually that is not funny to make fun of thing you don't understand.

A clock is a marvel using a plan to represent both numerically and in volume the time passing in an infinitly précise manner as it is continuous. Human reading precision can be chose at the level of the hour, the minute of the second. The 12-base allow a reading of the twelveths of the time period, the thirds, the halves and the quarters. The use of a circle make it possible to use it as a chronometer at any given start and follow the passing of time as your society see it.

That is just the data representation part!

The clock is also a marvel of ingeneering in the backend with very complex mecanism giving it a excellent precision and the abillity to run on many many different type of power.

The day starts at zero, not 12. 12 is "Noon" ie halfway through the day. The clock starts at 12 because it's more practical than inscribing 24 divisions in a circle. And the 6 doesn't "mean 30", it's simply the hour marking at the bottom of the circle. Finally, the 12 hour clock was invented after the 24 hour day, not the other way around.

And inb4 "I bet you're fun at parties". I'm all for "this logic is ridiculous" jabs, but this is just misrepresenting everything to make it sound stupid. Everything sounds stupid when you purposefully get it wrong.

The U.S. 12h clock is stupid: 12PM + 1h = 1PM

If you don't use a 24h clock at least do it like the Japanese, who also use the 12h clock and have: 0:00 PM + 1h = 1:00 PM

It’s a lot of different things it’s design is based on the sundial, we already had base 12 time

Wikipedia page for base 12, the origin is a fun read and while I can’t say it’s all accurate, the parts I know are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal

You fools need to submit to the 4 simultaneous separate 24 hour days within a 4-corner (as in a 4-corner classroom) rotation of Earth.

"There is no teacher on Earth qualified to teach Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4- Day Rotating Time Cube Creation Principle, and therefore, there is no teacher on Earth worthy of being called a certified teacher."

-Gene Ray, Visionary

The twelve comes from the babylonians, which counted the segments of four fingers with their thumb. So each hand could count to 12, which is far more useful than 10 as a base, since it can be divided by {1,2,3,4,6}.

ever think about how 5 is 1/12th of 60? that means putting 5 min and 1h on top of each other is genius imo. because there are 12 times more minutes in an hour then there are hours in a day

Aand that's Numberwang!

The day starts at zero, the only way that makes sense.

And that's why the way that am/pm is indicated is fucking lunatic.

Base 12 you filthy casual

Gilgamesh joins the chat. The Sumerians and the duodecimal system for time keeping.

"The day starts at night" sounds silly because it seems to be a contradiction. But really, how else could it be?

Either, day starts at day ... but then it was already day. Or, day starts at night ... unless we come up with additional entities like dusk or dawn.

And since we haven't introduced them yet, day has to start at night, as a necessity.

Of course the actual silly thing is that it's still night right after day has started.

Well, it's still a far plan than the time the French tried to force time into base 10......

Which might have been the first documented demonstration of the saying "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."