The 5,000-Year-Old Mystery Behind the 60-Minute Hour

A historical look into why an hour is divided into 60 minutes, tracing the practice back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia who found the number 60 to be highly divisible, simplifying calculations.

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n1-bihBosnian117d ago

Jeste li se ikada zapitali zašto sat pokazuje 60 minuta, a ne 100? Odgovor uključuje misteriju dugu 5.000 godina

Sat označava 60 minuta po satu jer su Sumerani iz Mezopotamije prije 5.000 godina otkrili da je broj 60 izuzetno djeljiv, što je olakšalo proračune u

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The 5,000-Year-Old Mystery Behind the 60-Minute Hour

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Jeste li se ikada zapitali zašto sat pokazuje 60 minuta, a ne 100? Odgovor uključuje misteriju dugu 5.000 godina

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