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RIGHT Angle with ninety degrees is very much used up today.
Intuitively, we can feel that if we call each 1/6 equal to 60, automatically we will have half of it as 30.
Therefore, if we take part of the division, “six”, and divide it in subdivisions of 60 - then we will reach the conclusion of why it is 90°. “Right angle”.
The circle division in 360 degrees is related to the sixtieth part and it is geometrically EXACT.
It was adopted that way and it is such up to now.
(6 x 10) x 6 = 360°
60° x 6 = 360°
90° x 4 = 360° We have already understood the circular division in 360° parts.
But the division of the day in 24 hours is yet to be well clarified.
At the moment of conclusions, the most logical suggestion is that it should be 36 hours instead of 24 hours, once the circle was understood in the fragments of 360°.
The proposals that would make more sense are:
1) As it consists of six parts from the beginning, then we would divide the day in 6 hours, that is, Six long hours. 2) The right angle suggested the division of 1/6 in half, completing a full lap in twelve sub-parts. Therefore, we would divide the day in 12 hours, that is, Twelve long hours, not 24. 3) If the complete day is the Earth's rotation around once, then we would stay with 36 hours directly related to 360°. 4) Dividing the day in 4 large sections, “Four right angles”, high night, morning, afternoon and evening. And each part would be understood as a cycle, sub-divided in 6 fragments. Then, we would have 24 hours for a full day.
At the moment such proposals were to be judged, number “3” would make the most sense, more logical. But it was not adopted, but the number “4”, 24 hours.
Consequently, one concludes:
a) The day cycle is divided in four minor parts, orthogonal (90°) between themselves, high night, morning, afternoon and evening. b) Each orthogonal cycle, “high night, morning, afternoon and evening”, is sub-divided in 6 minor cycles of “6 hours”, completing the full day in 24 hours – “6 hours x 4 = 24 hours”. c) The hours are sub-divided in 60 minor cycles, the minutes, comprehending 60 minutes per hour for a total of 1,440 minutes the full day. “24 x 60 min. = 1,440 min.” d) Minutes are sub-divided in 60 minor cycles, the seconds, comprehending 60 seconds per minute for a total of 86,400 seconds the full day. “24 x 60 x 60 sec. = 86,400 sec.”
The day is comprehended in 24 hours.
The hour in 60 minutes.
The minute in 60 seconds.
And the second in tenths / hundredths / thousandths, “according to the human fingers“.
With the help of Geometry it is easier.
Conclusion: The time count follows geometry and not the “Decimal” fingers of the human hand.
The Portuguese 10/04/2006
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