Most of us learn to read digital clocks first, which display the time in obvious numbers. Analog clocks are often learned later, with the hands taking our young brains a little longer to figure out.

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The circuit is featuring a binary display on a daily timer since the evolution of binary clocks, which have been used for planning time ON and time OFF using a relay. The relay used is operating in a ...

The amount of information the humble seven-segment display can convey is surprising. There are the ten numerals, dead-ringers or reasonable approximations for about half the alphabet, and even a few ...

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An algorithm is given for constructing an alphabetic binary tree of minimum weighted path length (for short, an optimal alphabetic tree). The algorithm needs 4n 2 + 2n operations and 4n storage ...