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weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

At least we're not mixing in letters

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weird@sub.wetshaving.social to memes@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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    Days start at 0h, not 12h

    It can’t start at 12 hours if there are 24 segments.

    And keep your letters out of it too.

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      Days start at 0h, not 12h

      Show me where is the zero here?

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        I have a clock that has 0 at the bottom, 6 in the 9 position, 12 at the top, and 18 in the 3 position.

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          I present to you… the binary clock

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            That’s fantastic and I want one, but it’s a BCD clock. Binary would say 01100 001111 101101

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      The AM/PM bullshit:

      AM: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

      Then the same for PM. Who counts like that? Whats after 12? 1! What?

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        Big brain ape like count in many systems

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        The galaxy-brained group known as “Z12 + 1”. “What if we did modular arithmetic but one-indexed.”

        Edit: Actually, wait, it’s worse: zero-indexing but we represent the zero element in Zn as ‘n’. Kill it with fire.

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          Is not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?

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        People who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!

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          I have no idea if that’s true but I believe it

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            The idea of zero being a number rather than the absence of a number took a very long time to settle on. There’s a whole history book on the topic!

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              I listened to an audiobook about the history of zero years ago (can’t remember the name, might be that one). I thought it would be dull enough to fall asleep to.

              It was not.

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      What clocks do you have that say 0, except for the 0 in 10?

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        Digital ones.

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          … what digital clock goes clockwise?

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            Well I can tell you that mine definitely doesn’t go anti-clockwise

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              Mine just goes south

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            European ones

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              Fair enough

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