| ▲ | AndrewOMartin 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
I just can't resist, pointing out that a "minute" is what you get when you split up an hour into 60 minute (i.e. the word pronounced my-newt) pieces, and a "second" is what you get if you break a minute into 60 pieces (i.e. you've performed the division a "second" time). By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a "third". | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ralfd 5 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> (i.e. the word pronounced my-newt) "minute" comes from latin "pars minuta" and the "i" should be pronounced like in "minimum" > By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a "third". It should be "tertia". I found that in German and Polish it was used that way, but don't know about english: | |||||||||||||||||
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