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The Romans had a word minute which meant small, and this is the origin. They also had a concept minute minute = secundus (sp??) = second! The origin of the time measurement probably went back to the Babylonians, who had a six-based number system, and also had ten fingers. But the coincidence of 1 second being close to a rest pulse rate has been remarked on.
Other than in math, minute is a small/short note of the proceedings of a meeting, a concept also coming from the Romans. Similarly for angles, where a minute is1/60 of a degree, and a second is 1/60 of a minute.
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