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  2. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes in official records, decimal hours were divided into tenths, or décimes, instead of minutes. One décime is equal to 10 decimal minutes, which is nearly equal to a quarter-hour (15 minutes) in standard time. Thus, "five hours two décimes" equals 5.2 decimal hours, roughly 12:30 p.m. in standard time.

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    minutes (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study 7.1 hs (11 m 50 s): The time for a human walking at average speed of 1.4 m/s to walk 1 kilometre 10 3: kilosecond ks minutes, hours, days (1 ks = 16 min ...

  4. Rule of twelfths - Wikipedia

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    The rule states that over the first period the quantity increases by 1/12. Then in the second period by 2/12, in the third by 3/12, in the fourth by 3/12, fifth by 2/12 and at the end of the sixth period reaches its maximum with an increase of 1/12.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Subdivisions of the day include the hour (1/24 of a day), which is further subdivided into minutes and seconds. The second is the international standard unit (SI unit) for science. Celestial sphere-based: as in sidereal time, where the apparent movement of the stars and constellations across the sky is used to calculate the length of a year.

  6. Decimal degrees - Wikipedia

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    Decimal degrees (DD) is a notation for expressing latitude and longitude geographic coordinates as decimal fractions of a degree.DD are used in many geographic information systems (GIS), web mapping applications such as OpenStreetMap, and GPS devices.

  7. Moment (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Two circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week, from a Carolingian ms. (Clm 14456 fol. 71r) of St. Emmeram Abbey.The day is divided into 24 hours, and each hour into 4 puncta, 10 minuta, or 40 momenta.

  8. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, the novelist and engineer Nevil Shute Norway (he called his autobiography Slide Rule) was Chief Calculator on the design of the British R100 airship for Vickers Ltd. from 1924. The stress calculations for each transverse frame required computations by a pair of calculators (people) using Fuller's cylindrical slide rules for two or ...

  9. Clock angle problem - Wikipedia

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    A method to solve such problems is to consider the rate of change of the angle in degrees per minute. The hour hand of a normal 12-hour analogue clock turns 360° in 12 hours (720 minutes) or 0.5° per minute. The minute hand rotates through 360° in 60 minutes or 6° per minute. [1]