Better Days
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could it be Salamanca?
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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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you need to show your workings
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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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no, sorry....keep trying.
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M should get this. And no that is not lens distortion in that window.
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as it happens, Michael had thrown the site open following the cancellation and he turned up in his LR for a chat...
i took the photo of 'him' amongst so,e disused props...
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looks like Burford?
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Indeed
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Another easy one for the over there tourers
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....but i digress.....back to the clocks...
in simple terms 1:05, 2:10, 3:15, 4:20, 5:25, 6:30, 7:35, 8:40, 9:45, 10:50.
or the more precise answer of
1:05:27 AM
2:10:55 AM
3:16:22 AM
4:21:49 AM
5:27:16 AM
6:32:44 AM
7:38:11 AM
8:43:38 AM
9:49:05 AM
10:54:33 AMwere able to quote these at your job interview?
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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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the pnotos are quite alike but, as far as i know, only one shot a major movie at Carcassonne.....and it wasnt Black Adder
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Damn, wrong again😁
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tis Salamanca....
what about my 'impressive architechture' one?
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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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yes, its a bit like the two way bike trip one....a question of calculating the rate of progress of each 'hand'...
the minute hand travels at a specific speed (vector/velocity) with the hour hand doing something similar but at 1/12 of it...
a few scribbled equations and Robert's your Dad's brother...
hope you haven't lumped me in with the 'also rans'
did you like my Alan Rickman photo? (bit of a clue for TW there).
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"Carcassonne was the venue for El Cid IIRC"
it may have been. wikipedia mentions Peñiscola, Chas may have also mentioned it upthread as a photo of Peñiscola castle appeared earlier....
i was thinking of a more recent (1991) production.....
weve been a couple of times and may well have called in on the way back from Spain last month had we not been in such a hurry...
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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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