[78-L] Metric minutes

[simmonssomer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Metric minutes


> David Sanderson wrote:
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>> found..stopwatch..each minute is divided into 10 groups of 10 instead of 
>>> 12 groups of 5.
>>
>> I'd guess you might have a watch designed for timing athletic events,
>> which operate in tenths and hundredths of seconds.
>>
> Which would make sense except that the face isn't divided into seconds but
> hundredths of a minute. Again, what would this have been used for?
>
> dl



Obviously to time the slowest runners.

Al Simmons

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