Re: Analog and Digital Clocks, Part 2
Gahalia, on host 216.3.252.5
Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 13:37:03
Re: Analog and Digital Clocks, Part 2 posted by The Other Matthew on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 12:17:32:
> > I love analog clocks so much better. With analog clocks, I can measure an amount of time geometrically, rather than arithmetically. > > > > And now I have to ask the same question: Am I alone in this? Because I've always thought it was sort of odd. > > > > Ga"Mental math = ugh."halia > > Geometrically...so like "It's a triangle past the octagon?" Or "It's 2/3 of a circle right now..." "We have about a quarter pie left..." (which the last two are still arithmetic, anyway.) I'm curious. Do explain. > > The Other "Or perhaps I'm missing the incredibly obvious" Matthew
Heh. No, I'm not *that* strange. ;-)
Check out the other reply to my post, where Faux_Pas linked to his reply to Monkeyman, the second paragraph of which basically describes what I was trying to say better than I said it. (But I said it first! Ha! ;-) )
Or, the simpler way to do it would just be to click below.
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