In fact, the Anglo-Saxons should take a step further: why only use inches, feet miles, yards? Why stop there? I suggest a new TIME SYSTEM!

  • The basis is mimoprala, this is a bit like the second. There are 12.5 mimopralas in a…

  • napoleon. This is how long it takes for a mouse to run three shoes sizes. There are 57 napoleons in a…

  • troupay. There 4.5 trupees in a day, but the last truupai of the day is 2.6 times longer than on the previous day.

  • a day starts with sunrise and ends with sunset.

  • there are 263 days in a year, the rest is vacation.

  • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
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    16 days ago

    If an alien civilization had what we would call base 5 counting as standard, would they still call it base 10 if they never had more words for digits than zero to four?