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Representing a Repeating Cycle as a Position

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Time-related measurements create a practical modelling problem: day, week, and seasonal cycles have boundaries in their written numbering that are not boundaries in the phenomenon. A representation that ignores repetition can make neighbouring times look unrelated.

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