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Originally Posted by Vestus
1011001
= (1 * 2^6) + (0 * 2^5) + (1 * 2^4) + (1 * 2^3) + (0 * 2^2) + (0 * 2^1) + (1 * 2^0)
= 64 + 0 + 16 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 1
= 89
I think thats right.
If the above is true, then the watch is a binary watch. The first row of lights is the binary number for the hour. The second row of lights is the binary number for minutes. And the indication of whether each light represents a 0 or 1 is whether it's lit up or not. Where if it's lit up = 1 and if it isn't lit up = 0.
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You are absolutely correct.
But as you can see in the watch, there's no need to understand binary to know what the time is in that watch, it's simple arithmetic, but you know why it's these numbers.
The way I try to make sense of it is that, take a number 100 for example:
-In decimal, where the base is 10, it's 10 * 10, which is 10^2, which equals to 100.
-In binary, where the base is 2, it's 2 * 2, which is 2^2, which equals to 4.
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Originally Posted by Dxon
I learned this at school. But I learned to decode quite different. NO! Don't ask me to show you how I do it! It's my last day of vacation and I don't wanna spoil my perfect morning right now. ^^
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Aww, my vacation already ended 5 days ago.
Allow me to ask how you decode it.
Haha, since I keep getting off-topic, I'm going to make a joke... I guess
Since we are at binary numbers...
Spoiler for PC vs Mac:
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It's another one of your popular PC vs Mac controversy again!
But today, PC and Mac themselves will end our argument one and for all!
*The audience starts to listen intently*
PC: 00010100101010100110010011010101001010101010101010 1011111
Mac: 01111111111111111111000000010101001010100000001011 110101
*The audience gets dizzy*
PC: 01010100100101010110101011101111111111111000000000 0000000
Mac: 11101000001111100000000000000111001010010101010101 011000
And then....
*Fatality scatters across the audience as smoke coming through their head, some received permanent mental disable, ailments retain to psychological process of all types, heart attack, lung cancers, chronic diseases, etc. Screams of pain and shriek of madness echo across the hall. Agony sweeps through the audience as they struggle for survival. Some people sit shaking in their seat, afraid of the oncoming causality and catastrophe. Other brave people, our brave people, our brave savior-to-be, fought back by throwing banana onto the stage. All that were left are permanent scars that could be felt throughout the centuries.
And then, the people of the future remember this day, of agony, of pain, of sadness and suffering, never again try to compare our [nearly] ultimate destruction--PC and Mac*
The end...
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Btw, don't bother trying to decode what PC and Mac say, they are pretty much numbers I type randomly. =/
The joke is pretty lame but hey, I tried my best.