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My dictionary says a minute is: 1 the sixtieth part of any of certain units
What does it call the first 59? And anyway, Bill, I happen to know that the sixtieth part of a minute is only the second.
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Dear IP: 59 seconds are one second less than a minute, if my math is correct.
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, I happen to know that the sixtieth part of a minute is only the second.But, but--how can it be the sixtieth AND the second?  Good one! 
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" I happen to know that the sixtieth part of a minute is only the second "
Dear Jackie: I suspect IP meant not "the" but "one".
Or were you just teasing him?
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And one ain't the onliest number
'cause it's second to none.
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When you were a little kid, did you ever notice the difference between you and your parents' definitions of a minute?
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3.6 kilohm-farads is an *hour. A minute is 60 ohm-farads. 
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entomologically, it is minute... like an insect...
numismatically tho, and in the larger cents, it is 360 degrees...
but the perimeter, you'll find, is infinitely long - if you're an ant on a walk...
"It's not about winning... It's about having fun!" Spongebob Squarepants
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The length of a minute depends on what universe I'm in. Incidently, my Spanish teacher's daughter works on spongebob squarepants (or so she says.)
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...depends on what's caught in the zipper...
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