Greetings fellow dialists,

Mike Cowham wrote:
>> [...]
>>   If we are going to
>> modernise them, then we should really use Arabic numerals.
>>         Alternatively, how about a base 2 system??? 1,10,11,100... 1010,
>> 1011 & 1100.  These would balance fairly well if we include the leading
>> zeros and make the 0s wide like letter O - (but not in all fonts).

 Thierry van Steenberghe, Bruxelles / Belgium
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
>I remember to have seen a picture of such a digital dial somewhere recently,
>but I can't find it again just now...
Thierry

Such a dial does exist. It is a multifacet dial made by David Brown for
Christ Church, Oxford and the reclining south face is numbered in binary
code with 00111 for 0700 hrs, 01000 for 0800 hrs, etc. It is described
and illustrated in the BSS Bulletin for June 2000

Frank, 55N 1W 
-- 
Frank Evans

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