Finally some kind of indicator displays the result in human readable form.
Having to write things down in readable form has made me observe them more closely.
To run on a computer it must be converted into a machine readable form, a process called assembly.
This displays the count of seconds, minutes, hours, etc. in a human readable form.
Now the information will appear in readable form: "Aug 01 94," for instance.
By hand in machine readable form (ie able to be scanned).
It can be used either as a decimal separator or to present large numbers in a much more readable form.
These are both very readable forms, and much gorgeous prose can be found stretched on their frames.
The thesaurus may be kept in machine readable form and sections printed only as required.
Output devices display information in a human readable form.