Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French...
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Binary-coded decimal (BCD) Decimal classification Decimal computer Decimal time Decimal representation Decimal section numbering Decimal separator Decimalisation...
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A decimal calendar is a calendar which includes units of time based on the decimal system. For example, a "decimal month" would consist of a year with...
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Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) is a decimal time system introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their...
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The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new...
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time – minute, hour, and day – are accepted for use with SI, but are not part of it. Metric time is a measure of time intervals, while decimal time is...
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Clock face (redirect from Telling time)
decimal time system. This had 10 decimal hours in the day, 100 decimal minutes per hour, and 100 decimal seconds per minute. Therefore, the decimal hour...
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symbol can be called a decimal mark, decimal marker, or decimal sign. Symbol-specific names are also used; decimal point and decimal comma refer to a dot...
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French Republican calendar (category Decimal time)
dechristianization and decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication). It was used in...
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List of unusual units of measurement (redirect from KerMetric time)
clocks and hexadecimal time. The Swatch Internet Time system is based on Decimal time. Many mechanical stopwatches are of the 'decimal minute' type. These...
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order of magnitude of time is usually a decimal prefix or decimal order-of-magnitude quantity together with a base unit of time, like a microsecond or...
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Decimalisation (redirect from Decimal currency)
have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are...
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Decimal Day (Irish: Lá Deachúil) in the United Kingdom and in Ireland was Monday 15 February 1971, the day on which each country decimalised its respective...
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24-hour clock (redirect from Military time)
Clock Date and time representation by country Decimal time Hindu units of time Italian six-hour clock List of military time zones Metric time Thai six-hour...
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Stardate (section Decimal point)
counted from 2323. The decimal represents a fractional day. Thus, stardates are a composition of two types of decimal time. In the twenty-first century...
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A repeating decimal or recurring decimal is a decimal representation of a number whose digits are eventually periodic (that is, after some place, the...
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A decimal representation of a non-negative real number r is its expression as a sequence of symbols consisting of decimal digits traditionally written...
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£sd (redirect from Pre-decimal currency in the UK)
spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence", is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe. The abbreviation originates from...
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mandated the use of decimal time, with a day divided into 10 hours of 100 minutes each. A clock in the Palais des Tuileries kept decimal time as late as 1801...
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Traditional Chinese timekeeping (redirect from Chinese units of time)
someone is talking about modern seconds. Chinese calendar Decimal time Hour Date and time notation in Asia Chinese units of measurement Chinese Buddhism...
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hexadecimal hours, minutes and seconds. For example: Binary time Decimal time Metric time Nystrom, John William (1862). Project of a New System of Arithmetic...
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Day (category Orders of magnitude (time))
Various decimal or metric time proposals have been made, but do not redefine the day, and use the day or sidereal day as a base unit. Metric time uses metric...
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12-hour clock (redirect from 12 hour time)
position Date and time representation by country Decimal time Italian six-hour clock Midnight Muhurta Noon Pahar Thai six-hour clock "Time". The New Encyclopædia...
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Decimal time was introduced in the decree of 5 October 1793 under which the day was divided into 10 "decimal hours", the "hour" into 100 " decimal minutes"...
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computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed...
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Program that creates a windowed application that shows the current time in binary and decimal format. See below for the BlitzMax and BlitzBasic versions: Eschalon:...
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The British decimal halfpenny (1⁄2p) coin was a denomination of sterling coinage introduced in February 1971, at the time of decimalisation, and was worth...
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Positional notation (redirect from Decimal place value)
the decimal system. Some of those pro-decimal efforts—such as decimal time and the decimal calendar—were unsuccessful. Other French pro-decimal efforts—currency...
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Hour (redirect from Italian time)
decimal time between 1794 and 1800. Under its provisions, the French hour (French: heure) was 1⁄10 of the day and divided formally into 100 decimal minutes...
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Paragraph (redirect from Decimal section number)
Paragraphs are commonly numbered using the decimal system, where (in books) the integral part of the decimal represents the number of the chapter and the...
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