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		Rayhem on Oct 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Metric Time Do the physicist thing and just define all your constants to be one. "How long is a day? 1 day." "I slept for .37 days." This nicely unifies things with the tao manifesto[1] people since 1 day = 1 turn = 1 tau = 2 * pi radians and reinforces the periodic nature of these things. [1]: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

PawgerZ on Oct 12, 2023 [–]

Yes, but in reality, you slept .37827387654329617345987613475130465019873458612386459012374587203475. . . days

saalweachter on Oct 13, 2023 | [–]

Doesn't that depend on whether time is quantized?

PawgerZ on Oct 17, 2023 | | [–]

Yes, but with no viable theories of a minimal unit, I'll assume that no such thing exists until given proof otherwise.

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