 angelo0317
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
 335 Posts
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:28:55 PM
Gage doesn't know about colons. |
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 The_Frogg
Male, 18-29, Southern US
674 Posts
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:29:26 AM
I like how everyone's going "only ____ can be this stupid" without any empirical evidence of the askers true residence |
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 patchgrabber
Male, 30-39, Canada
5252 Posts
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:18:09 AM
Units of measurement, you're doing it wrong. |
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 MightyPeanut
Male, 30-39, Canada
407 Posts
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:43:37 AM
good lord...only in America. |
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 alsobored
Male, 18-29, Australia
351 Posts
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:40:59 AM
reposterific
& this was a troll post, there was one before this that said the same thing by another poster, this Gage guy is fake or just pretending to believe that for the sake of amusing reactions. |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8721 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:22:03 PM
Sarah, 60 is considered to be a nice number to work with because it's evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30, while 100 is divisible by fewer numbers: 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, and 50. It's the same reason a circle is divided into 360 deg -- it's divisible by lots of whole-number factors.
The only reason we use base 10 numbers is because we have 10 fingers. We might not have been as dexterous with only 8, but our numbering system would have been simpler. If we had 12 fingers, though, a base 12 system would be pretty nice if you like to divide by 3 which is a pain in the @$$ in base 8 or 10. |
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 AtheistAlien
Male, 30-39, Western US
772 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:43:08 PM
This is why you are stupid Europe. |
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 Draculya
Male, 30-39, Asia
6296 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:20:23 PM
@xelous "Oh snap!"
Your sarcasm filter is not working properly. It's either a loose connection or a defective unit. Smack your head on the desk and if that doesn't fix it, send it in for inspection. |
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 Angelmassb
Male, 18-29, S. America
15474 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:57:04 PM
What else would you expected from Yahoo Answers |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16922 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:23:21 PM
Best of all, I caught him on the first cast! (inserts a "lolz" just to bug @Tobunshi... and @davymid too, possibly).
LOLZ! |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16922 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:20:34 PM
5Cats, did you seriously just type "lolz!"? I think you might be dumber than Gerry1of1 even.
YES I did! Mister: "I have no submissions but I like to call YOURS boring!"
You also have NO sense of humour, apparently...
HEY @xelous! I done caught me a big, fat @madestfish! He swallowed the bait, hook line & sinker! Ugly critter though, tastes awful too!
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 HI-haole
Male, 18-29, Western US
535 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:11:03 PM
Besides that.. I never mentioned anything about why we have as many days that we have in a year.. Or revolutions around the sun.. |
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HI-haole
Male, 18-29, Western US
535 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:05:54 PM
@insanmonster
I'm not talking about the theory of relativity or anything man.. Sheesh..
I'm just saying that time, as we calculate it on earth, is based on revolutions of the earth. Meaning that we started of in Egypt (spread to Greeks after) with sundials and split the day and night equally with 12 hours given to each one. |
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 insanmonster
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
257 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:52:13 PM
I apologize for the randomness of my last post
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insanmonster
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
257 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:51:46 PM
@HI-haola
Time has nothing to do with the rotation of the earth. It has to do with quantum vibrations in atoms. It has been a while since I have studied any quantum and I am no expert but the earth rotates around the sun around every 365.25 days (which is why we have a leap year). The way we measure time is completely independent of the number of days in a year.
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 cfwestdotie
Male, 18-29, Europe
61 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:34:35 PM
WOW |
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HI-haole
Male, 18-29, Western US
535 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:12:44 PM
@SarahofBorg "I don't understand this whole 60 seconds = 1 minute crap. While can't we have centi-seconds? Why 60? Why not 100 like rational people? Same with 60 minutes = an hour. It's so damn confusing."
It's based on the revolution of the Earth...
I'm not gonna make a mean reply to your comment.. Just that how can you call yourself Borg and not be logical?... |
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 PringleMan
Female, 13-17, Canada
1364 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:53:54 PM
I believe it's called the microwave time paradox.
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durdikkimeng
Male, 50-59, Europe
257 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:25:50 PM
60 seconds = 1 minute.
2 minutes = 120 seconds.
1.00 = 1 HOUR and no seconds. Thats 60 minutes.
Add 1.00 and 1.00 thats 2 HOURS and no seconds.
Or 120 minutes.
You're reading it wrong. Getting hours and seconds confused. Americans! Hey. You want to be a colony again? You'll get a better education. |
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 Steelgrid
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
2685 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:56:17 PM
"I don't understand this whole 60 seconds = 1 minute crap. While can't we have centi-seconds? Why 60? Why not 100 like rational people? Same with 60 minutes = an hour. It's so damn confusing."
Its because of the human fixation on the number 12. 12 months, 12 hours, 5 minute increments of 12 equaling 60 in an hour.
Think of the 0:00 as not a timer, but as a place holder for numbers. Before the colon, you put in minutes, after the colon you put in seconds, done and done.
Funny how so many of you try long winded explanations to a timing shortcut. |
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 Tobunshi
Male, 18-29, Europe
682 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:30:34 PM
5Cats, did you seriously just type "lolz!"? I think you might be dumber than Gerry1of1 even. |
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 SarahofBorg
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3526 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:30:16 PM
I don't understand this whole 60 seconds = 1 minute crap. While can't we have centi-seconds? Why 60? Why not 100 like rational people? Same with 60 minutes = an hour. It's so damn confusing. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:44:51 PM
You sir are a douch bag! |
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HI-haole
Male, 18-29, Western US
535 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:27:35 PM
Because : is not .
Just wow |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25590 Posts
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:07:27 PM
I just press PopCorn setting for everything I put in there. |
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