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Yamara
✉ 22:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have any sources on Nystrom's hexadecimal time system? What did his proposal entail other than to divide the day into sixteen hours? --W.
It seems that his works are published in the Franklin Institute Journal N°46, Philadelphia 1863.
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Peter 2005 17:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
"There are always 256 hexadecimal minutes in a hexadecimal hour and 16 hexadecimal seconds in a hexadecimal minute."
Does this mean that hexminutes and hexseconds simply do not apply to 256-hour days? It would make no sense to use a system of 32*256*16 hexadecimal seconds per day when you group bits by 8. Z-d 19:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
"Thus, the conception of hexadecimal time once sixteen hours a day implicates only eight mean longitudinal great circles. Furthermore, the congruency to the familiar cardinal positions of all the three pointers at 3, 9, 12 o'clock is deleted. In this format, the position of the pointers of an analog hexadecimal clock is identical to an analog 12-hour clock only once a day, at midnight."
What does this mean? I can't even parse it. I think it just means that, since the 16-hour clock covers a whole day, but the traditional clock only covers half, the hands won't be in the same position at the same time. If so, this has nothing to do with how many hours the day is sliced up into. - Dmh 16:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
This means that the positions of the three hands of an twice 16 hours hexadecimal clock are identical to the position of an twice 12 hours clock eight times a day: am 3H00, am 6H00, am 9H00 and at noon, just like as at pm 3H00, pm 6H00, pm 9H00 and at midnight. It's easy to understand. I restore now the former version. --
Paul Martin 20:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
PS. Also see: Hexadecimal metric system.
The average interval between one human REM ( rapid eye movement sleep) phase and the next, while sleeping, is about 1 hexadecimal hour (90 conventional minutes). Some scientists discovered that when humans wake up about 90 minutes after a REM, their wakening is pleasant and quick. -- 79.50.224.215 ( talk) 22:39, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Why is the hour divided into 16^2, instead of rather into 16 as are the day and minute? -- Backinstadiums ( talk) 09:59, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
In the image it looks like the hours go 6, 7, 8, J, 9. Is this the case? Why? Mateussf ( talk) 18:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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Yamara
✉ 22:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have any sources on Nystrom's hexadecimal time system? What did his proposal entail other than to divide the day into sixteen hours? --W.
It seems that his works are published in the Franklin Institute Journal N°46, Philadelphia 1863.
--
Peter 2005 17:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
"There are always 256 hexadecimal minutes in a hexadecimal hour and 16 hexadecimal seconds in a hexadecimal minute."
Does this mean that hexminutes and hexseconds simply do not apply to 256-hour days? It would make no sense to use a system of 32*256*16 hexadecimal seconds per day when you group bits by 8. Z-d 19:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
"Thus, the conception of hexadecimal time once sixteen hours a day implicates only eight mean longitudinal great circles. Furthermore, the congruency to the familiar cardinal positions of all the three pointers at 3, 9, 12 o'clock is deleted. In this format, the position of the pointers of an analog hexadecimal clock is identical to an analog 12-hour clock only once a day, at midnight."
What does this mean? I can't even parse it. I think it just means that, since the 16-hour clock covers a whole day, but the traditional clock only covers half, the hands won't be in the same position at the same time. If so, this has nothing to do with how many hours the day is sliced up into. - Dmh 16:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
This means that the positions of the three hands of an twice 16 hours hexadecimal clock are identical to the position of an twice 12 hours clock eight times a day: am 3H00, am 6H00, am 9H00 and at noon, just like as at pm 3H00, pm 6H00, pm 9H00 and at midnight. It's easy to understand. I restore now the former version. --
Paul Martin 20:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
PS. Also see: Hexadecimal metric system.
The average interval between one human REM ( rapid eye movement sleep) phase and the next, while sleeping, is about 1 hexadecimal hour (90 conventional minutes). Some scientists discovered that when humans wake up about 90 minutes after a REM, their wakening is pleasant and quick. -- 79.50.224.215 ( talk) 22:39, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Why is the hour divided into 16^2, instead of rather into 16 as are the day and minute? -- Backinstadiums ( talk) 09:59, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
In the image it looks like the hours go 6, 7, 8, J, 9. Is this the case? Why? Mateussf ( talk) 18:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)