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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish36•edit-22 months agoDays 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-22 months agoWhat clocks do you have that say 0, except for the 0 in 10?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 months agoWell I can tell you that mine definitely doesn’t go anti-clockwise
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•2 months agoThe 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?
minus-squareTheTechnician27linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareLog in | Sign uplinkfedilink4•2 months agoIs not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoPeople who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoI have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 months agoThe 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!
minus-squareApathy TreelinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoI 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•2 months ago Days start at 0h, not 12h Show me where is the zero here?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoI have a clock that has 0 at the bottom, 6 in the 9 position, 12 at the top, and 18 in the 3 position.
minus-squareLog in | Sign uplinkfedilink1•2 months agoThat’s fantastic and I want one, but it’s a BCD clock. Binary would say 01100 001111 101101
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.
What clocks do you have that say 0, except for the 0 in 10?
Digital ones.
… what digital clock goes clockwise?
Well I can tell you that mine definitely doesn’t go anti-clockwise
Mine just goes south
European ones
Fair enough
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?
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.
Is not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?
Big brain ape like count in many systems
People who lived before the invention of zero counted like that!
I have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
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!
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.
Show me where is the zero here?
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.
I present to you… the binary clock
That’s fantastic and I want one, but it’s a BCD clock. Binary would say 01100 001111 101101