Many stop lights at street intersections display a countdown of the remaining seconds before the light changes. If you’re like me, you count this time in your head and then check how in sync you are.

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 ...

For thousands of years, we’ve divided days into 24 hours, hours into 60 minutes, and minutes into 60 seconds. But why do we have to do that? Here’s the story of the one gloriously failed attempt to ...

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 ...