Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?

Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.

I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.

I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.

  • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    because you don’t use that for more than single digits or teens

    it’s used to slow you down with using monosyllable digits. once you go above twenty, you drop it becaues the digits start becoming 3 or 4 syllables.

    i never heard it being used beyond the count of ten. like, you use it as a kid when counting, but i don’t see why an adult would ever do it. i know how long a second is.