well if you look at it this way you'll notice that there are 360 degrees in a circle. i find it quite interesting that a that the earth revolves just over 1 degree about the sun in 1 day. there fore close to 360 days in a year of course its a bit off but still you can see what i mean and of course 360/24 = 15 so every hour the earth rotates 15 degrees and every minute the earth rotates 1/4 of a degree and every second the earth rotates 1/240 of a degree. yes the smaller units of time are fractions but still they divide nice and clean resulting in nice rational numbers. well thats the best way i can describe it
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well if you look at it this way you'll notice that there are 360 degrees in a circle. i find it quite interesting that a that the earth revolves just over 1 degree about the sun in 1 day. there fore close to 360 days in a year of course its a bit off but still you can see what i mean and of course 360/24 = 15 so every hour the earth rotates 15 degrees and every minute the earth rotates 1/4 of a degree and every second the earth rotates 1/240 of a degree. yes the smaller units of time are fractions but still they divide nice and clean resulting in nice rational numbers. well thats the best way i can describe it