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Alessandro

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
What time is it when it reads 5:41?

Alessandro
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p.s.: Patent pending

Iqbal E. Maskatiya

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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is it 12:59:02 PM?

Alessandro wrote in message <01be4fa1$8dee82a0$0100007f@default>...

David Snook

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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541\10*100 = k \ 60*24
k = 779.04
k = 12:59:02
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Kevin Woolery

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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Alessandro <PARISa....@flashnet.it> wrote in message
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>A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
>each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
>What time is it when it reads 5:41?
>
>Alessandro
>Email without capital(s)
>p.s.: Patent pending

Spoiler

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It's 9:01am

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RM Mentock

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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Alessandro wrote:
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> A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
> each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
> What time is it when it reads 5:41?

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.541 * 24 hours = 12:59:02.4

A little less than a minute before 1PM

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Kevin Woolery

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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Oops, I overlooked the 100 seconds per minute.

Kevin Woolery <ke...@sandpiper.com> wrote in message
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>Alessandro <PARISa....@flashnet.it> wrote in message
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>>A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
>>each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
>>What time is it when it reads 5:41?
>>

RM Mentock

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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Kevin Woolery wrote:
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> Oops, I overlooked the 100 seconds per minute.

? I thought the 100 seconds per minute was irrelevant. Why
did it make a difference?

D.J. Schreffler

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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On 3 Feb 1999, Alessandro wrote:

> A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
> each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
> What time is it when it reads 5:41?

12:59:02

Dwayne Hoffman

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Feb 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/3/99
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5:41 in the AM is 41*100 for the total of seconds...plus 5*100*100 for the
number of seconds from the hours...so, there's 54,100 seconds total. Since
there is 86,400 seconds in a day, and there's 43,200 seconds from midnight to
noon, the time must be in the PM. 3,600 seconds are in a hour, so there are 3
hours and 100 seconds left over. Therefore, the time is 15:01:40, or 3:01:40
PM

Dwayne Hoffman

Alessandro wrote:

> A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
> each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
> What time is it when it reads 5:41?
>

Ronald Osher

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Feb 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/4/99
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How about this approach:
5/10 of 24 ===> 12 hours
41/100 of 60 minutes ======> 24.6 minutes =====>24 minutes, 36 seconds
therefore 12:24:36

Uffe Thomassen

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Feb 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/4/99
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Ronald Osher <RONO...@worldnet.att.net> skrev i artiklen
<36B9691F...@worldnet.att.net>...


> How about this approach:
> 5/10 of 24 ===> 12 hours
> 41/100 of 60 minutes ======> 24.6 minutes =====>24 minutes, 36 seconds
> therefore 12:24:36

Hi Ronald Osher

Your are making a little mistake because, the hours are longer 1/10 hour of
24 hour * 60 minutes = 144 minutes

Ergo

5/10 of 24 ===> 12 hours

41/100 of 144 minutes ===> 59.04 minutes ===> 59 minutes 2.4 seconds.
Therefore 12:59:02.4

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DW

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Feb 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/4/99
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Alessandro wrote:
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> A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
> each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
> What time is it when it reads 5:41?
>
> Alessandro
> Email without capital(s)
> p.s.: Patent pending


The time is 12:24:10


RM Mentock

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Feb 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/4/99
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Explain, please?

Glenn

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Feb 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/4/99
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"Alessandro" <PARISa....@flashnet.it> writes:

>A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,
>each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
>What time is it when it reads 5:41?

24 hr/day * 3,600 sec/hr = 86,400 sec/day

new time units:
hr/day * 100 min/hr * 100 sec/min = 100,000 sec/day

Therefore, 86,400/100,000 = 108/125 sec/new-sec

5:41 = 5 * 100 * 100 + 41 * 100 = 54,100 new-sec * 108/125 = 46,742.4 sec.

46,742.4 secs = 12 hr, 59 min, 2.4 sec. -- it's almost 1:00 pm

Ronald Osher

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Feb 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/5/99
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Uffe
I may be making a little mistake...but you are making a little
assumption!
Namely that each new hour is made of 100 new minutes and each new minute
is made of 100 old seconds. But what if Alessandro's friend's clock was
designed according to the following rules:
1) Each Old Day has 10 new hours
2) Each Old Hour has 100 new minutes
3) Each Old Minute has 100 new seconds
(I know it's a stretch, but consider it.)

Ron

Ronald Osher

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Feb 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/5/99
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Typo corrected below.

Ronald Osher wrote:
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> Uffe
> I may be making a little mistake...but you are making a little
> assumption!
> Namely that each new hour is made of 100 new minutes and each new minute

> is made of 100 new seconds. But what if Alessandro's friend's clock was

Dustin Christopher Preuitt

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Feb 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/5/99
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This clock already exists... it was the original metric clock. It never
caught on though.


The honourable Alessandro (PARISa....@flashnet.it) wrote:
::>A friend of mine invented a new clock. It times an entire day in 10 hours,


::>each hour in 100 minutes and each minute in 100 seconds.
::>What time is it when it reads 5:41?

::>
::>Alessandro

Uffe Thomassen

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Feb 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/5/99
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Hi Ronald

It's right, if you make this assumption, it correct you get the time you
calculated, but then you also have accept that a old time like 01:30 in new
time would be 00:150, for me personaly it would be strange to work times
like that.

By the way, whats your opion about Swatch's new internet time beats. I
think it is a good idea, but i doubt it will gets its breakthrough.

Uffe


Ronald Osher <RONO...@worldnet.att.net> skrev i artiklen

<36BA896C...@worldnet.att.net>...

JGG

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Feb 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/11/99
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You are correct that 5:41 repersents 54,100 seconds. But his is out of a
100,000 sec day (10*100*100). Compare this to your 86,400 sec/day (24*60*60)
and you get the conversion factor of 108/125 (86,400/100,000). Therefore
54,100 new day sec*(108 old day sec/125 new day sec) = 46742.4 old day sec.
Now divide thia by 3600 old day sec/ old day hrs = 12.984 = 12 hr 59 min 2.4
sec.

JGG
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