Thursday, January 29, 2009

What Part of This Clock You Don’t Understand

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This is a clock for those people that paid attention in math class all the way through college.
Each numeral on the clock has been replaced by an equivalent notation. The picture says more than I can.
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There's an explanation of the numerals
3 A Unicode character as a HTML entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML
5 The Golden Mean reworked a little http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
6 Three Factorial (3*2*1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial
7 6.99999.. Though a different number than 7, still equals 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal
8 Graphical representation of Binary code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system
11 An example of Hexadecimal encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
12 The cube root is the inverse of 12^3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_root
URL for this document: http://tinyurl.com/a8sg2x
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Tattoo Jim said...
Yeah, right, sure, gotcha, no problem... what?????
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So you are saying that you didn't pay attention in math class. HaHaHa.
Don't feel bad I only went through algebra
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