What if minutes and seconds were metric how many hours would there be in a day. For instance 100 seconds makes a minute and 100 minutes makes an hour
2007-01-23 08:18:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Refrase how many hours will there be in a day if 10 seconds made a minute and 100 minutes makes an hour
2007-01-23 15:41:14 · update #1
Consider this, we have 86,400 seconds during the day, and it takes 60 seconds to make a minute. That means we have 1,440 minutes during the day. If it takes 60 minutes to make an hour, we have 24 hours during the day.
Since a day consists of 86,400 seconds, if it took 100 seconds to make a minute, their would be 864 minutes during the day. If 100 minutes make an hour their would be 8 hours and 64 minutes during the day.
Wow... What long hours... We'd be making minutely wages! And we would either have to make the last hour short or start each day with a new hour..... Kerazy.
2007-01-23 08:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we had 100 seconds to a minute, and 100 minute to the hour, it seems likely we'd have 100 hours to the day.
Before we changed to metric time, we had 86,400 seconds in a day. Now we have 100 X 100 X 100 = 1,000,000, so each newsecond would equal 86,400/1,000,000 = 1/0.0864 of an oldsecond (current second).
A day had 1440 oldminutes, now we have 10,000 newminutes for the same time period. The newminute would be equal to .144 oldminutes.
A day was 24 oldhours long. Now it’s one hundred. A newhour would be .24 of the old hour (or last 14.4 oldminutes).
Your lunch-break would still last the same amount of time, but it would be more than 4 newhours long! And nobody would pay any attention to seconds, except scientists.
2007-01-23 20:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by Peaches 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second is the standardised unit of time (metric unit)-You're thinking of making the minute 100 seconds long...We'd have to call it something else if that were the case.
Swatch tried to push their @Beat time system with a range of watches that would measure @Beats-the day was divided up into 1000 Beats from Midnight in Switzerland-they didn't sell too well-they still use it on the website (Currently @815)
2007-01-24 13:35:23 · answer #3 · answered by Devmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it would probably be based on the number 10. There would be 10 hours in a day and 10 minutes in an hour and so on.
2007-01-23 16:30:13 · answer #4 · answered by nosrettaptnilc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure seconds and minutes are already metric... well seconds anyways...
2007-01-23 16:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by home boy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-12-03 03:22:55 · answer #6 · answered by walter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋