• @Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    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…

    • @TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      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?

      • @Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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        12 days 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.