The My Number system may be one of the biggest white elephants the government has ever put together, a Board of Audit study showed on May 15. The central government has spent about 1.17 trillion yen ...
The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
According to the study, a total of 6,062 medical institutions in 35 prefectures that have installed the My Number Card system were surveyed. Of that number, 64.8 percent of the institutions ...
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Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).
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Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t be said when we’re asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it’s 144).
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