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Time is math I think (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (21 children)

Actually that is not funny to make fun of thing you don't understand.

A clock is a marvel using a plan to represent both numerically and in volume the time passing in an infinitly précise manner as it is continuous. Human reading precision can be chose at the level of the hour, the minute of the second. The 12-base allow a reading of the twelveths of the time period, the thirds, the halves and the quarters. The use of a circle make it possible to use it as a chronometer at any given start and follow the passing of time as your society see it.

That is just the data representation part!

The clock is also a marvel of ingeneering in the backend with very complex mecanism giving it a excellent precision and the abillity to run on many many different type of power.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Should watch an old BBC miniseries, Longitude.

So much fun watching how crazy clocks are engjneered, and Jeremy irons.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you. I add it on the list (^_^)

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I was fascinated by some of the crazy things people tried to get working that were discussed on that show. Things like keeping a pair of dogs, wounded by the same knife, as a way to synchronize time. As if they were some kind of quantum entangled particles.

Edit: Found it!

The powder was also applied to solve the longitude problem in the suggestion of an anonymous pamphlet of 1687 entitled Curious Enquiries. The pamphlet theorised that a wounded dog could be put aboard a ship, with the knife used to injure the dog left in the trust of a timekeeper on shore, who would then dip said knife into the powder at a predetermined time and cause the creature to yelp, thus giving the captain of the ship an accurate knowledge of the time.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago

Oh God... Weren't this people happy water clock and other sandglass-like engine?

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