30 January, 2009

Not so innumerate.

This* clock is for 'those people that paid attention in [maths] class all the way through college' – not me, then.  It replaces each numeral with an equivalent notation, presumably impenetrable to the non- numerically-trained.

So why can I readily interpret five? Okay, two are web-related ('3' as a Unicode entity, '11' in hexadecimal), but still: I'm surprised.

*: The link doesn't look permanent, so if you're reading this a long time after it was posted, you might like to try BoingBoing's coverage instead.