Why are there 60 seconds in a minute/60 minutes in an hour instead of 100?
Our clocks are based on the British system of measuring angles. When a line intersects another line such that they have the equal angles to each other (like a +). The angle which they make is called a right angle. Now to the main part the British system says “the right angle is composed of ninety degrees” That is if you make 90 equal parts of the angle, one small angle is equal to one degree.This was done to facilitate division by 3 as well as 2. In fact there is the French system in which one right angle is equal to 100 “Grades”. Even clocks were made to match the system but the idea did not catch up, They became unpopular and the system was forsaken. The times on the DVDs were calculated using 60 minutes as an hour. 60 minutes + 60 Minutes + 15 Minutes = 135 Minutes =>1 Hour + 1 Hour + 15 Minutes= 2-Hr,15-Minutes.
