If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here…)
A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never…
I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually…
I was also visualizing the round analogue clock face, but didn’t want to muddy the water by saying “twice” when I guess it’s technically only once, just no am/pm delineation.
I am puzzling over this at work now. I guess a fast clock could be right almost infinite times a day if it ran fast enough, but a slow clock can only be as slow as a whisper faster than stopped, which would mean it could be right alllllllllllllmost twice a day, but never twice a day.
Where in my comment did I ever suggest that I don’t understand this?
I was just reflecting on the comment that I was responding to, which was specifying that a broken clock may be running fast or slow, instead of being stopped.
I prefer “stopped clock,” since broken clocks can often continue ticking, albeit at the wrong speed.
A broken clock, whether it ticks too fast or too slow, is still right at least once every 24 hours, I think.
The only exception would be one that ticks correctly but is not set to the right time (does this count as broken?)
If a 24-hr clock is one second slow per day, its correct once every 236 years.
Thats MTG.
They did the math
I was thinking of an analog clock with 12 hours and no distinction of AM or PM… but if we’re talking 24h clocks you are right.
Every 118 years then.
Ah, true. I was definitely mistaken then.
If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here…)
A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never…
I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually…
I was thinking of analog 12hr clock with no distinction between AM and PM
I wonder if your 24hr clock example would be more intuitive as frequencies and phases?
I was also visualizing the round analogue clock face, but didn’t want to muddy the water by saying “twice” when I guess it’s technically only once, just no am/pm delineation.
I am puzzling over this at work now. I guess a fast clock could be right almost infinite times a day if it ran fast enough, but a slow clock can only be as slow as a whisper faster than stopped, which would mean it could be right alllllllllllllmost twice a day, but never twice a day.
Yeah but the full saying is “a stopped clock is still right twice a day”
Where in my comment did I ever suggest that I don’t understand this?
I was just reflecting on the comment that I was responding to, which was specifying that a broken clock may be running fast or slow, instead of being stopped.
Where in my comment did I suggest that you didn’t understand something? Take a breath dude.
I’m not upset, just confused… the comment you posted just reiterates something that the person I replied to and I already know lol
I mean with her she’s right less than once a day.
She probably gets a couple softball questions right from time to time :
🗣 " Today is Thursday, right?"
🧟♀️ “Yessssssss!”