Why does a day have 24 hours?

Question

Why not 10 or 100 hours? How did they come up with 24 hours?

tiffanylegtlos · Answer

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-Hour-Z%C3%A4hlung

spikeman197 · Answer

Probably the day was 12 hours and the night too. You used to like to work with the 12 (a dozen) and also traded, for example, because you can divide 12 well... by 2, by 3, by 4, by 6...

chronossol · Answer

The day has 24 hours because a year, so summer, autumn, winter, spring, so best fit into a time frame.

Of course, every four years we always have a leap year to deduct the largest, superfluous, sum. Of course, there's still a certain rest… but this is only minimal thanks to the bill.

derjens292 · Answer

A dial (circle with 3600) can be divided more easily into 12 or 24 parts than into 10 or 100 parts.

hamburger02 · Answer

The hourly counting is also based on the 12th numerical system of the Babylonians. They divided the day into the day and the night and gave 12 hours each half day.

Only by the way: Within the framework of the French Revolution, attempts were made to switch the time to our 10s system. The day had 10 hours to 100 minutes each. Here you can see such a revolution watch:

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However, this time division could not prevail.

thaumaturg · Answer

Because an hour has 60 minutes and a minute of 60 seconds and someone at some point fixed the duration of a second so that a day lasts 24 hours.

emanuel681 · Answer

1/16 would be easier.

pwolff · Answer

I don't think: https://www.sofatutor.com/mathematik/videos/quadrate-und-rechtecke-construct

spikeman197 · Answer

Okay, that's right if you have a circle.

But when cutting a round cake, or a cake, you don't have it. I found this as a child always hard (and therefore incomprehensible) that you usually do 1/12 pieces. Today I know why and it's better, but it's not really practical.

bob117 · Answer

It takes about 24 hours until the earth turns around itself.

derjens292 · Answer

Once longitudinally and once transversely you have 4;

that quarter you have 8;

or the third quarter you have 12,

once Mercedes stars are 3;

two Mercedes stars are 6;

or the third is 9;

5 is difficult or 10

spikeman197 · Answer

So if I'm supposed to be free-hand with a knife, I'm not really happy afterwards.

derjens292 · Answer

In the beginning you can measure with a band size. Otherwise, practice, practice, ...