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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 2, 2008 14:37:28 GMT
Great win today listened to commentary on match console. As promised a really difficult puzzle because its crap on telly tonite. Here goes. The answer can be found using simple mathematics and a bit of logic.
The minute and hour hand on an analogue clockface are exacltly in line several times during a 12 hour sweep. Your problem is in 2 parts.
1. What is the precise time difference of this event between 2 consecutive occurances. The answer must be exact.
2. To make sure you have got this right, at exactly what moment between 6 o'clock and 7 o'clock are the hands aligned. Answer to the nearest millisecond.
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Post by davemong on Feb 2, 2008 14:40:54 GMT
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 2, 2008 14:48:28 GMT
No **** thats wrong. I said its a maths problem so I would expect to see numbers in the answer. Those, if I'm not mistaken, are letters. Perhaps you should attend one of the adult skills for life courses that will teach you such basics as the difference between letters and numbers.
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Post by powchirper on Feb 2, 2008 14:53:07 GMT
got fridays in a millisecond(honest) but todays is too hard to concentrate on with all the sport on the box ???
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Post by Miniman on Feb 2, 2008 21:01:23 GMT
I reckon about 1 hour....???complete guess though...or could it be about every 25 minutes????DON'T KNOW THOUGH!
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Post by Zippy Moon Dust on Feb 3, 2008 0:01:03 GMT
No it wasn't - there was loads of Alan Partridge on Dave. "Smell the cheese" a) 1h 5m 27.273s b) 6h 32m 43.636s Reason: it happens 11 times in 12 hours so it's 360/11 for the angle in degrees which equates to answer "a" given that 1 hour = 30º. 6 x a gives answer b. I think. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 3, 2008 8:22:37 GMT
Well done zippy. I worked it out because there are 11 times it occurrs so 12/11 x 12 hours gives you the time between occurrances. Then you know that it occurrs at 12.00mins.00secs, so worked out when it would occurr between 6 and 7 oclock by adding hours and minutes to 12 o'clock. No puzzle today back again tomorrow.
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