Binary clock, anyone?
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My only problem with all three of these clocks/watches is that they aren't actually Binary clocks, but BCD (Binary Coded Decimal); Meaning that only binary numbers up to 1001 (9) are used.
I was given a watch last Christmas that displays the hours and minutes in true Binary using 4 bits for the hours and 6 bits for the minutes. The difference is:
As you can see, the Binary variant is a bit more geeky in that you need to know Binary to read it! :)
I was given a watch last Christmas that displays the hours and minutes in true Binary using 4 bits for the hours and 6 bits for the minutes. The difference is:
Decimal BCD Binary10:41 0001 0000 0100 0001 1010 101001HEX-> 1 0 4 1 A 29DEC-> 1 0 4 1 10 41
As you can see, the Binary variant is a bit more geeky in that you need to know Binary to read it! :)
Nov 30, 2006. 4:48 PMFrenchCrawler
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