For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It’s like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet…

Edit: just to clarify, I’m more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

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    1 year ago

    Hahahhahaj, you were victim of my bad English. I meant a bag of beans! Hahahaha.

    I was just giving an example of how you could have an intuitive idea of metric units by the using objects around you if you eventually need it.

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      1 year ago

      Haha no problem, your English is waaay better than my Portuguese! I understood what you meant and that’s the point I was trying to make too. I don’t need to do any conversions to figure out what a mile, gallon, etc. is because I already know, just like you already know what a kilometer and liter are.