Its nine golden hands, rather than pointing at numerals, stopped instead to suggest a location where each of Ron Weasley's family members might be found: " 'Home,'schoolol' and 'work' were there, but there was also 'lost,'hospitalal,'prisonon' and, in the position where the number 12 would be on a normal clock, 'mortal peril.' " Mortal peril!
Originating from neuroimaging studies, this proposal was directly supported by a behavioral study that showed that merely looking at Arabic numerals caused a shift in covert attention to the left or right side, depending upon the numerals' magnitudes [36].
This may sound confusing, though it is easy to understand if you look at Roman Numerals from 1 to 20: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX Learn the values.
Post-hoc analyses with Bonferroni corrections showed no significant Notation effect at all sites, but a significant Magnitude effect for Arabic numerals at all three sites (Left, p<.05; Middle, p<.05; Right, p<.05), such that small Arabic numerals elicited larger N1 (M = −3.00, −2.27, −2.95 µV, respectively) than large Arabic numerals (M = −2.33, −1.64, −2.38 µV, respectively).
For example, the reference position for the hands of a clock is at the numeral 12, and the minute hand has a period of one hour.
The time was 9 30 P.M., and the digital numerals at the wheel's center loomed directly over Marclay's bristly head.
He also takes credit for having introduced Roman numerals at the end of movie titles, as in his late-70's epic "World War III II".
For all those Richards, Henrys, and Williams with Roman numerals at the end of their names, clanking onto the battlefield to defend the sacred succession was inevitable; blue blood was meant to be spilled.
Certainly among the most delicious of childhood and early schooldays memories is that magical moment when the standard old-fashioned classroom clock with the Roman numerals at long last clicked to those three magic digits: 3 15.
Its designers built dials recalling the collection's first models, introduced in the early 1900s, which featured a characteristic mix of Roman numerals at the 12 and 6 o'clock positions and baton markers for the other hours.
The watch face has very bold numerals at the five cardinal points and is very readable.
