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Dymaxion map of the world with the continental landmasses (Roman numerals) and 30 largest islands (Arabic numerals) highlighted. Image title: A map of the world, showing all landmasses with 10° graticule and Tissot's indicatrices of diameter 1,000 km and spacing 30°. Coastlines precise to 110 km. Width: 100%: Height: 100%
A projection clock (also called ceiling clock) is an analogue or digital clock equipped with a projector that creates an enlarged image of the clock face or display on any surface usable as a projection screen, most often the ceiling. [1] The clock can be placed almost anywhere if only the projected image must be seen.
In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.
Longcase clocks (grandfather clocks) typically use Roman numerals for the hours. Clocks using only Arabic numerals first began to appear in the mid-18th century. [citation needed] The clock face is so familiar that the numbers are often omitted and replaced with unlabeled graduations (marks), particularly in the case of watches. Occasionally ...
Arithmetic mean of the equirectangular projection and the Aitoff projection. Standard world projection for the NGS since 1998. 1904 Van der Grinten: Other Compromise Alphons J. van der Grinten: Boundary is a circle. All parallels and meridians are circular arcs. Usually clipped near 80°N/S. Standard world projection of the NGS in 1922–1988 ...
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:57, 19 September 2006: 725 × 410 (27 KB): Nae'blis == Summary == Diagram of the Vector Clocks algorithm, translated from the German Wikipedia equivalent by D. Düsentrieb Originally translated at en:Image:VectorClock.svg, document edge trimmed of excessive whitespace and uploaded to commons.
A Roman era sundial on display at a museum in Side, Turkey The Romans used various ancient timekeeping devices . According to Pliny , Sundials , or shadow clocks, were first introduced to Rome when a Greek sundial captured from the Samnites was set up publicly around 293-290 BC., [ 2 ] with another early known example being imported from Sicily ...