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excerpt: "Although we are living in the “digital age\", sometimes it's fun to measure something the old fashioned way. Everything seems to have a digital display attached to it now days. Just take a look at the dash board of a new car. What happened to the needles, gauges, hands and clock faces? They're all digital…"
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# How Does It Measure Up?

Although we are living in the “digital age”, sometimes it’s fun to measure something the old fashioned way. Everything seems to have a digital display attached to it now days. Just take a look at the dash board of a new car. What happened to the needles, gauges, hands and clock faces? They’re all digital diode type displays. While they are more accurately read, they are the electronic simulation of a gauge. In other words, a circle or part of a circle divided up proportionately.