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If 1 hour equalled 1 minute how many hours would a day be?

I'm writing a fantasy story where time moves differently but I am not good at math(s).

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    A day is just the amount of time an orbiting body takes to complete a revolution.  An hour is a division of a day, and is really subjective.  There aren't actually 24 hours in a day and an hour doesn't have to be 60 minutes and a minute doesn't have to be 60 seconds.  We use the numbers that we use because 12, 24, 60 are numbers with a lot of divisors.  They're highly divisible numbers, and thus make partitioning particularly easy.

    There was a push, when the Metric system was being implemented, to encourage something known as Decimal Time.  Divide the day into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes and each minute into 100 seconds.  The decimal second would be 0.864 standard seconds.  The decimal minute would be 1.44 standard minutes and the decimal hour would be 2.4 standard hours, but the decimal day and standard day would be exactly the same.

    What I'm trying to say is that in your fantasy story, you can divide days however you want.  You can use a base-10 system, a base-12 system, a base-360 system, or have even more imprecise measurements (for instance, referring only to the period of the day, like morning, dawn, mid-morning, day, mid-day, evening, twilight, night, etc...).  The world is your oyster here.

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    According to your question, the answer would be 24 minutes. 

    The answer you chose shows that the writer needs to see a psychologist.

  • sepia
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    It would be 0.4 hours.

  • Philip
    Lv 6
    9 months ago

    If 1 hour = 60 min shrinks to 1 min, then 1 day = 24 hours would shrink to (24/60)

    hours. = 24 min.

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  • TomV
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    If the time altered universe experiences 1 minute for each hour in the real universe, then the real universe would see 1440 hours for every day that passed in the time altered universe. Time passes faster in the real universe.

    If the time altered universe experienced 1 hour for each minute in the real universe, then the real universe would see 24 minutes for each day in the time altered universe. Time passes faster in the time altered universe.

  • Reality: 1 day = 24 hours = 1440 minutes

    Fantasy: 1 day = 24 minutes = 0.4 hours

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    not good at math? are you good at google?

    https://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+minutes+in+a+day

  • 9 months ago

    Still 24 hours.

    :)>

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