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The Babylonians who invented the units of time, and the Greeks who invented
the units of angles, divided the hours, minutes, and seconds of time and the
degrees, minutes, and seconds of angles, into 60 parts, rather than 100 parts,
to make it easier to define sub-parts of them.
You can cut an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30 equal pieces without
ever cutting up a minute.
If the hour were 100 minutes, your choices would be 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, and 50 parts
without the use of fractional minutes.
A system of decimal time was once introduced, with 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes
in an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute. The reason you haven't heard of it is that
it never caught on.
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What fraction of a minute is 57 seconds?
Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.
How many times greater is one minute then one second?
One minute is 60 times greater than one second
What can be measured in seconds or minutes?
Angles! A minute is 1/60 of a degree; a second is 1/60 of a minute.
How do you convert a rate of y miles per hour to x miles per second?
y miles per hour = y/60 miles per minute (60 minutes per hour) y/60 miles per minute = (y/60)/60 miles per second Take y, the number of miles traveled per hour, and divide by 3600 to get the amount of miles per second. Example: 100 miles per hour --> miles per second 100/3600 = 1/36 1/36 miles per second
What percent is 10 seconds of a minute?
10seconds as a percentage of 1 minute = 100*10 sec/1 min = 100*10 sec/60 sec = 100*10/60 = 16.66... %
Chang 100 mintes to second?
1 minute = 60 seconds100 minutes = (100 x 60) = 6,000 seconds
How many second in a minute?
As there are 60 seconds in a minute, there are 1/60th of a minute in one second.
What fraction of a minute is 57 seconds?
Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.Since one second is 1/60 of a minute, 57 seconds is obviously 57/60 of a minute.
How many bullets does a gatling gun shoot per minute?
100 rounds per second. do the math- 6000 round per minute divided it by 60 and you have 100.
How long is a second of time?
About the time it takes to say 1. 1/60 of a minute. 100 milliseconds.
Convert feet per minute to feet per second?
'F' (feet / minute) x (1 minute / 60 seconds) = (F / 60) (feet - minute / minute - second) = F/60 ft/sec -- Take the number of feet per minute. -- Divide it by 60. -- The answer is the number of feet per second.
Why is a minute 60 second long and not 100?
Because it is based on the Babylonian number system, which used 6 extensively.
How many times greater is one minute then one second?
One minute is 60 times greater than one second
1 minute equal to how many second?
Usually 60. Seldom 61, if there is a leap second.
How many second are in a minute?
60 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day
How many minute in 1 second?
1 second = 1/60 of a minute = 0.0166666 (repeating) minutes
How do you figure out how many nano seconds are in a minute?
( 1 nanosecond) x (1,000,000,000 nanoseconds/second) x (60 second/minute) = 60 billion nanosecond/minute
