wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
OK...let me put it another way
Long, long ago, the hour was invented. Everyone stood around looking at the hour and thought it was great. But then some wiseguy piped up "Hey, what if I want to boil an egg or something, those hour thingies are useless for that"
So everyone stood around wondering what to do until a bright spark said "I know what we'll do, let's split the hour up into bits". There was much discussion as regards how to split the hour up. Finally a clever maths type dude said "How about 60 bits? That way you can easily get 1/2 an hour, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/10, 1/12, 1/15, 1/20, 1/30 of an hour"
"I like it" said the guy who wanted to boil an egg. And thus, the minute was created as 1/60 of an hour. The End
But an egg takes 3 minutes.