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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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What song has lyrics 525600 minutes 525000 moments so dear 525600 minutes how do you measure measure a year In daylights in sunsets in midnights in?
This song is titled, oddly enough, "525600 Minutes." It is from a Broadway musical called "Rent."
What time is it if it's twenty minutes to seven?
Well, isn't that a happy little question! If it's twenty minutes to seven, then it's almost time for the clock to strike seven o'clock. So, it's about 6:40, and you have a few more minutes to enjoy before the hour changes. Just enough time to appreciate the beauty around you and maybe even paint a little landscape scene.
What is one hundredth of a minute called?
Minutes and hours are currently not measured using a metric system. Time is measured using the decimal system, whereby an hour is 60 minutes, and a minute is 60 seconds. In most proposed metric time systems the smallest usable measure of time is still called a 'second' with smaller portions called milliseconds and kiloseconds. 10 seconds would be called a decasecond, and 100 seconds called a hectosecond.
How many hours is 500 mins?
Problem:500 minutes = ? hoursConversion(s):1 hour = 60 minutesStart with 500 minutes. Arrange a fraction, so that minutes cancels (this is called dimensional analysis), or basically ( 1 hour / 60 minutes ). That reads for every 1 hour there are 60 minutes.( 500 minutes ) x ( 1 hour / 60 minutes ) = 500/60 hoursThe point here is units can cancel out, just like numbers can, using a fraction.500/60 hours = 50/6 = 25/3 hours ~= 8.333 hours.So 500 minutes is equal to about 8.333 hours.
Is it a couple of minutes or a couple minutes?
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