minuta

The paper is linked in the article, from it: At one point he squares the distance 92 pedes, 9 untia, 0 minuta, 9 secunda.

The /r/books subreddit tends to focus on bizare minuta about reading rather than book recommendations, you're looking for threads on subreddits like /r/AskReddit.

If you want to lose weight, Christensenella minuta is worth examining.

The minuta and stuff sometimes is the key it seems.

Assuming 'pedes' is steps, 'untia', 'minuta', and 'secunda' are some dec divisions of a step, then the result notation has too many points to keep the meaning.

To me, the minuta having to be written down was a symptom of the complexity making the simplistic and guiding principle don't be evil useless, which I think mainly was caused by scale and the way the ad industry and personal data practices everywhere have evolved.

Hence 1/60 of an hour is a "pars minuta" ('minute' in English), and 1/60 of a pars minuta is a "pars minuta secunda" ('second' in English).

In Medieval Latin, pars minuta prima "first small part" was used by mathematician Ptolemy for one-sixtieth of a circle, later of an hour (next in order was secunda minuta, which became second).

"pars minuta prima" -- first small part, and "pars minuta secunda" -- second small part.