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[Fenrir]

According to the archive of the old wiki, a season is 84 days long. There are four seasons a year.

84 * 4 = 336

When last I checked, there were 365 days in a year. Are dwarven years shorter or is the wiki wrong?

[Sowelu]

Dwarven years are shorter.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Very fitting to dwarves, I must add.  

[PTTG??]

quote:Originally posted by Sowelu:
<STRONG>(Compared to real-world years) Dwarven years are shorter.</STRONG>

quote:Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>Very fitting to dwarves, I must add.</STRONG>

You should both be ashamed of yourselves.
Now somebody has to add that to the front page of the Wiki.

[Fenrir]

Are the years shorter in DF or aren't they?!

[Helmaroc]

quote:Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>Are the years shorter in DF or aren't they?!</STRONG>

YES.

[Fenrir]

Oh, I thought you people were messing with me.

[Pickerel]

He was messing with you.  The dwarven years aren't shorter, the days are just longer, just as how a dwarf's stature is made up for by it's strength, endurance, and beard length and bushiness.

People should start using metric time.  10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute.  Much easier to do math in.  Since normally there's 86,400 seconds per day, but now we have 100,000, we simply account for this ratio: each metric second is 0.864 times as long as a normal second.  Or each normal second is 1.15741.  No more of this base 60/60/24 babylonian crud.

[Kagus]

Heh, that's not the only thing.  The 'standard' measurement system is completely and utterly ridiculous.  How the hell people managed to come up with these systems baffles me...

Kinda strange though.  I'm clueless as far as the metric system for weights and measurements is concerned, and I have no luck with Celsius temperatures.  I still think they're smarter than the systems I'm used to, however.

[Dwarfaholic]

And to be honest, this 10-numeral system isn't exactly the best possible either.
We would be better off with one with 12 numerals, as counting for example fractions would be easier (as 12 is divisible by 2,3,4 and six compared to 10, which is only divisible by 2 and 5).

/rant.

[Kagus]

Yes, but then we'd need to grow some extra fingers and toes.

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>Yes, but then we'd need to grow some extra fingers and toes.</STRONG>

Or find an alternate method of counting on fingers. Heck, when I was little I learned a method (think it was called Chisanbop or something weird like that) that lets you count from 0 to 9 on one hand, thus allowing you to use one hand per digit and count to 99 on your hands. Or 9999 if your feet are agile.

[Tahin]

While we're on the topic of counting on your fingers, I like binary.
Using off/on (finger raised/closed) you can count to 1023 using both hands.

[Hyperturtle]

Have you actually had to count to 1023 with both hands?

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While we're on the topic of time, has there ever been any discussion about a day/night cycle and perhaps lighthouses that can be built to illuminate areas?

I notice some creatures are nocturnal, but judging from the map, the fortress is a happening place, day or (lack of) night.

[Othob Rithol]

I'm a big fan on the base one numeric system, makes calculus a snap.