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Each numeral on the clock has been replaced by an equivalent notation. .
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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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