2023/11/03

Other decimal times

We tend to think of decimal time as a division of the day, but there are other bases, too. 

 Many companies use decimal time for payroll or hourly billing, with hours as the base, divided into hundredths. So 6:30 PM is written as 18.50. Punch clocks like this are common. 

 Astronomers sometimes divide years into decimals such as 2023.789. 

Computers often use Unix time, which counts seconds, sometimes divided into milliseconds and microseconds, like 1699042927.711. 

 So there is already a whole world of decimal time already in use!

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