16 (number) old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and 5 lower beads to represent the 1s, the 7 beads can represent a hexadecimal digit from
The Touch of the Master's Hand recorded for Wayne Waston's first album "Workin' In The Final Hour" in 1980 and recorded 12 years later on his "How Time Flies" compilation project. The poem was adapted into two short-films: "Touch of the Master's Hand" (1980) directed by Jimmy Murphy, and "The Touch of the Master's Hand" (1987) directed by T.C. Christensen. Myra Brooks Welch was born in 1877 and died in 1959. While she authored many other poems, she is best known for this work. The Touch of the Master's Hand "The Touch of the Master's Hand", also sometimes called "The Old Violin", is a Christian poem