# Answer this question without Google (Creative thinkers enter)

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**Created:** [March 11, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/answer-this-question-without-google-creative-thinkers-enter/44818 "2008-03-11T11:48:22Z")
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#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/answer-this-question-without-google-creative-thinkers-enter/44818/68 "2008-03-11T17:17:18Z")

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> [@cdvma](#):
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> I didn’t read all of your answers but this one stuck out. This doesn’t work. By this then you say the hands line up at 6:30 and that is not the case (its the easiest negative proof to visualize) since the hour hand will be half way between 6 and 7 but the minute hand is dead on 6.
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> The quick and the dirty is the minute hand always rests at the same places every rotation so its position can be described as Y=(360/60)_X where X is the time in minutes (or partial minutes) and Y is the angle in degrees. The hour depends on what hour it is currently so its a bit different: Y=(30_HOUR)+(30\*(MINUTE/60)). Set those two equations equal to eachother and you can solve for which minute and hour by fixing hour and solving for minutes.
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> Charting this you can see the minute angle line intersect 12 individual hour angle lines (each have the same slope but are offset 30\* on the x axis).
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> Since the minute angle slope is constant and the hour angle is just offset by the same with each additional hour it is a fixed difference. Its just not 5 minutes 🙂
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> Of course there is also the simple explanation that there are 10 unique , individually spaced intersections on the dial not counting the zero position. 60 minutes with 10 divisions is 6 minutes each 🙂

Goddammit 24 times you fuck. The minute hand passes the hour hand, momentarily lining up, every hour.

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