A Stopped Clock

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    A Stopped Clock is WRONG 1438 times a day!

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    Digital or analog?
     
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    It's right twice a day. The number of times it's wrong is an infinite number. (between any 2 moments of time there is an infinite no. of moments, just as with numbers)
     
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    Being right two times a day, is my record as well!
     
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    I like this clock.

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  7. Hal Pollner

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    It makes no difference and is immaterial.
     
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  8. Hal Pollner

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    How far do you want to take this, Hugh?
    Most people only care to see the time in hours and minutes.

    Seconds? There are 60,000 Milliseconds in a minute, 60,000,000 Microseconds in a minute, and 60,000,000,000 Nanoseconds in a minute.

    Do we care to differentiate between succeeding Milliseconds, Microseconds, and Nanoseconds?

    How about Picoseconds? That's a Trillionth of a second, man!
     
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    What is really germane to our lives is that there is no such thing as 12:00AM or 12:00PM. Any street signs using either of those as a reference (rather than "noon" or "midnight) is unenforceable.
     
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    The phrase " stopped clock " (also " broken clock " or " sudden outbreak of common sense ") comes from the proverb "even a stopped clock is right twice a day", thus implying that even cranks, denialists, or conspiracy theorists that are literally wrong at every other time of the day can theoretically be correct once in a while especially in spite of their bad reasoning.
     
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    A Stopped Clock is WRONG 1438 times a day! that is the view of a pessimist
    An optimist says it is right twice a day
     
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    And a realist just buys a new damn clock!

    They're not that expensive...
     
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  13. Hugh Manely

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    Well, if you take this very far, we will get into the area of paradoxes. Have you studied Zeno's Paradox? Or, how about the old adage that one cannot ever reach a wall be going half of the distance, then half again, and so forth? Or how about the tortoise and the hare?
     
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    I'm retired and never look at the clock.

    Just let the good times roll...
     
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  15. Hal Pollner

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    That reminds me of the Asymptotic curve, never reaching the theoretical contact value, as in Y=Tan X.
     
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