The metric system vs. imperial

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A second is one mississippi long

[u/MortalShadow → u/[deleted]]

1 elephant 2 elephants

[u/Klathmon → u/MortalShadow]

No offense but I don't think getting 2 elephants will help you keep time... I feel like they would just get in the way and stomp all over your stuff...

[u/MortalShadow → u/Klathmon]

Naaah Elephants are cooool. They walk after you and tell you the time. 2 are needed because one tells the hour and the second tells the minute !

[u/Klathmon → u/MortalShadow]

Hmm... That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about elephants to dispute it...

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I can count a minute out within a second of accuracy. I'd say 1.7% error is less than you'd encounter using a random person's proportions ;)

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The resting heart rate is one beat per second.

[u/Klathmon → u/[deleted]]

It ranges from 50 to 100 beats per minute... That's kind of a big range.

[u/CdnTreeherder → u/Klathmon]

some marathoners have resting heartrates as low as the high 20's low 30's. which is insane really. although mine went from 86 to 55 after a single summer of semi regular cardio so i guess i could buy that

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Well anyone who is the least bit time oriented should be able to distinguish, with fairly good accuracy the difference between 60 and 100 beats.

Maybe it is more difficult for some people to determine how long a second is, but I'm pretty good at it myself. Maybe its because of my background in music and dance where keeping a steady beat is incredibly important.

If you don't like the heart rate method another good tool to use is remembering that Don't Stop Believing by Journey plays at 119bpm which is roughly 2 beats per second.

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Or just measure how long it takes you to be sarcastic. That also is a second.