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[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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....

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[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

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?

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[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

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.

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