Most numbers used in business are based on 10 – commonly known as the decimal system. One dollar is $1.00 and a half-dollar is $0.50. Time, of course, is an exception because it's based on 12. The day ...

About face The Clockwork Conspiracy conjures up a world where decimal time becomes reality which is not as mad as it seems: this decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny c. 1798–1805. (CC ...

This decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny in Rouen, France, between 1798 and 1805. | DeFacto, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 Everybody knows that there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes ...

Humans historically have worked well with decimal numbering systems. This is probably due to the fact most of us have ten fingers, which make counting in base ten easy. Yet humanity seems to doggedly ...

In 1793, the French switched to French Revolutionary Time, creating a decimal system of time. A day had 10 hours, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. The system was elegant, doing away ...

Though Marie Antoinette would be hard-pressed to care, the French Revolution of 1789 set its sights on more than simply toppling the monarchy. Revolutionaries sought to break the nation free from its ...

excell 2003<BR><BR>I have a timesheet setup and I keep a running track of my hours on my paycheck in the form of hh:mm, where hh can go above 24 hours. I need the number in decimal format also for ...