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Pics. To answer that, we have to turn to ancient history! They used a 360 (6x60) day calendar as opposed to our 365 day calendar.
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We know that there are 60 seconds in 1 minute. What remains true for most of us however is that we get to use easy ghetto math and simply know that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24. Why 60 minutes and 60 seconds?
Why do we have 60 seconds in a minute?
How did we come to divide the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds? It's also why there are 12 in a dozen, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 360 degrees in a circle. Why is there 60 seconds in a minute, and 24 hours a day? Dividing the day into hours, minutes and seconds is a recent practice with thousands of years of science and tradition behind it.
