Better Days
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and you forgot 74, which also is fully correct
There are (infinitely) others too, but those two are the most sensible. In fact 74 is slightly more so.
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OK, the clock was set at 6 then it moved to 5, so most people would think take away 1, that 6-1 = 5 to give 6+2x2x5 = 26
But as it's a clock it could also get to 5 by adding 11 hours, so 6+11=17 and then 6+2x2x17 = 74
Did the puzzle setter say they had moved the hour hand back or moved it forward? and as most un-tampered clocks move forward and some clock you can't move backwards (we've got one) so either answer is correct.
of course the clock could have been moved backwards by 13, 25... hours or forward by 23, 35... hours... giving an infinite number of solutions but either back 1 hour and forward 11 are more likely.
Clocks are fun...
Anyway today's puzzle, If the hour and minute hand meet on top of each other at 12 o clock, at what times do the meet like this again in the next 11 hours and 59 minutes? I got asked this in an interview once. I got the job.
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M should get this. And no that is not lens distortion in that window.
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Indeed
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Another easy one for the over there tourers
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I could ask for your working like you did but I won't
I didn't 'quote' them as I worked it out and actually I learnt much later than they were very impressed as I solved it by forming angular velocity equations for the minute and hour hands and solved those simultaneously. They were very impressed as most of the other also-rans did it by dividing 720 by 11.
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Damn, wrong again😁
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I agree with PD that it's almost a dead ringer for Piazza San Marco. It's only the lamp post that gives it away.
Carcassonne was the venue for El Cid IIRC.
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no of course not (the also-rans) I meant the others at the interview.
also when I said you should retrain the other day, I meant as a maths teacher, it was a compliment.
I thought you meant where Hogworts was film
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