A day consists of 86,400 seconds, so why was that number set the standard? The hindu Yugas of time are denominated in blocks of 864,000 years, obviously related, and the Great Pyramid fits within a hemisphere of a sphere 1/43,200th the size of the earth, so related too, the commonality of these that the ancients measured the earth (geometry) by its axial precession rate of 72 years/degree, the hexagon within a circle concept used also for our modern nautical mile mapping system.
