Why we hav 60 seconds in 1 minutes?

Answer 1

The importance of 60 comes from the Babylonians used a base 60 number system as compared to our base 10 system. 60 and 6x60 = 360 were very natural numbers for them to work with. They used a 360 (6X60) day calendar as opposed to our 365 day calendar. The ancient astronomers would have noticed that it takes 365 days for the sun to move (about our fixed Earth) past the stars that appeared to be fixed to an external heavenly sphere, and return to where they started. The choice of 360 days for a year may have been a compromise between a 365 day solar year and a 354 day lunar year, (consisting of 12 months of 29.5 days each).

Answer 2

The reason there are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour, is because the Babylonians had a counting system with a base of 60. No doubt if the British had invented time, with their base 10 system, there would be 100 minutes to an hour, and each minute would be divided into 100 seconds.

Answer 3

The origins of our current measurement system go back to the Sumerian civilization of approximately 2000 BCE. This is known as the Sumerian Sexagesimal System based on the number 60. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour - and possibly a calendar with 360 (60x6) days in a year (with a few more days added on).

Answer 4

A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. (Some rare minutes have 59 or 61 seconds; leap second.)

The minute is not a SI unit, however it is accepted for use with SI units.

In geometry, a minute is a unit of angle, 1/60th of a degree. It is then also known as a minute of angle or minute of arc, and can further be divided into 60 seconds of arc.

In astronomy, the minute is a unit of angle and time, 1/60th of an hour of right ascension. It is then known as the minute of right ascension, and can be further divided into 60 seconds of right ascension.

The symbol for a minute of time (or of right ascension) is min.

The symbol for a minute of arc is a prime (′). For example, fifteen minutes could be written 15′. However, more commonly an apostrophe, or single quote (U+0027), is used.

The Earth turns on its polar axis through fifteen minutes of arc in every minute of time. A minute of arc at the Earth's equator is approximately a nautical mile.

An hour likely contains 60 minutes due to influences from the Babylonians, who used a base-60 counting system.

Answer 5

Not an answer, just some additional trivia -

Somewhere along the line someone suggested that lots of arithmetic in the imperial system would be simplified if we switched to a base 12 number system:
60 seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour
24 hours in a day
12 months in a year
12 inches in a foot...

Answer 6

The importance of 60 comes from the Babylonians used the base 60 number system as compared to the base 10 system.

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Answer 7

The ancient which defined the minute used sexagesimal units instead decimals. So, the number 6 appeared

Answer 8

I have no idea. Somewhere in history people decided that 60 second increments were equivalent to one minute.

Answer 9

Because earth moves in 4 minitues.

Answer 10

because 60 is the only considerable no. divisible by 2,3,4 which is necessary for divisional distriburtion of time like quarter to....,half past....quarter past.....