This thoroughly modern system had a few practical benefits, chief among them being a simplified way to do time-related math: if we want to know when a day is 70 percent complete, decimal time ...

If you’re like me, you count this time in your head and then check how in sync you are. But did you know that if the French had their way back in the 1890s when they tried to introduce decimal ...

But surely we could move on from ancient Greece and Babylon when it comes to the time of day? Probably the most famous attempt at a decimal calendar came in the aftermath of the French Revolution ...

A year and a half before the introduction of the initial metric system, a decree was put out on October 5, 1793 that France was switching to decimal time. With the sole exception of an ancient ...

The concept of decimal time, wherein a day is broken down into multiples of 10, was first suggested more than thirty years prior when French mathematician, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, argued in 1754 ...

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It is worth noting that, in addition to time, many things aren’t measured in units of 10. In the US, the foot, the mile and the 64th of an inch are very much alive. Decimal time, while not in ...

Most numbers used in business are based on 10 – commonly known as the decimal system. One dollar is $1.00 and a half-dollar is $0.50. Time, of course, is an exception because it's based on 12.

In 1793, the French switched to French Revolutionary Time, creating a decimal system of time. A day had 10 hours, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. The system was elegant ...