[HN Gopher] A dot for every second in the day - a clock
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       A dot for every second in the day - a clock
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-04-10 16:03 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | sublinear wrote:
       | > Why is the bottom-right corner of the box not filled in?
       | Because there are only 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400 seconds in a day, but
       | the big box is 300 x 300 = 90000 dots. So 3600 are blank.(4%)
       | Thanks to a reader for the question.
       | 
       | ???
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       | Alright... no.
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       | 86400 / 9 = 9600
       | 
       | Not quite a square, but it would _look better_... I guess...
       | though why would I want it grouped into 9 anyway?
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       | There may be some reason, but I can't figure out why not 60 dots
       | * 60 dots * 24 boxes arranged in a 6x4 grid. :(
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       | EDIT: Oh, it's supposed to represent graph paper. I'm in my mid
       | 30s and that completely went over my head. Just saying.
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       | EDIT 2: I also wouldn't expect highly composite numbers to align
       | very well with decimal grids. Such is life. Ah yes... "metric".
       | :)
        
       | ktpsns wrote:
       | Readers who liked this also enjoyed this classical visualisation:
       | https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
       | 
       | This blog has a number of other philosophical reads worth a few
       | dots and pixels in your visualized lifetime.
        
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