What is odd . . .

[redfox70]

Took me a minute or so, but it's the date. Stonemason had a typo

 

[Essex Boy]

. . . about this doormat?

 

[pat grimshaw]

My my. What a talented banana you have, my good man! Mesmerising.



Yeah? Well, I don't care what Belamy said to Grimshaw. /wildguesses
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Fair enough. So when are getting around to your 'Ask BBN anything' thread? I for one have quite a few questions to ask about Za, physics, locker rooms, Mr Pstorious, etc.

 

[Willie Boy]

It could be age or senility, but I don't recall clocks having 72 minutes per hour.

Or 72 seconds per minute. 12 extra seconds per minute times 12 minutes per hour - 144 extra seconds per hour equals 1728 extra seconds per 12 hour "daylight" period (and another 1728 extra second per "night"). An extra 28.8 minutes per "daylight" or 57.6 per full 24 hour day. Somebody wants another hour per day. Or more accurately, 350.4 hours per year!

What would you do with an extra 14 days in the year?

 

[Vitamin]

. . . about this doormat?

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Are you sure that's supposed to be a dorrmat? It looks like ready mix logo with a bunch of foot prints superimposed all over the place.

 

[gsdx]

Or 72 seconds per minute. 12 extra seconds per minute times 12 minutes per hour - 144 extra seconds per hour equals 1728 extra seconds per 12 hour "daylight" period (and another 1728 extra second per "night"). An extra 28.8 minutes per "daylight" or 57.6 per full 24 hour day. Somebody wants another hour per day. Or more accurately, 350.4 hours per year!

What would you do with an extra 14 days in the year?

Learn arithmetic.

 

[gsdx]

Or 72 seconds per minute. 12 extra seconds per minute times 12 minutes per hour - 144 extra seconds per hour equals 1728 extra seconds per 12 hour "daylight" period (and another 1728 extra second per "night"). An extra 28.8 minutes per "daylight" or 57.6 per full 24 hour day. Somebody wants another hour per day. Or more accurately, 350.4 hours per year!

What would you do with an extra 14 days in the year?

Learn arithmetic.

 

[Willie Boy]

What, you don't like the new math they've got going these days? I've seen it used and am still trying to understand it myself. It doesn't get the correct answer, but they insist it does work. Just like a clock with an extra notch every 5 seconds.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Belamo isn't saying much. He's too busy rebumping his rebumped bumped threads after he rebumped them a few years ago.

His threads about the economy aren't interesting but his others are erudite.

 

[gsdx]

What, you don't like the new math they've got going these days?

Funny you should mention that. New math followed me all the way through high school when it was instituted. I never really learned how to do it.

 

[Willie Boy]

I just had to laugh. Everybody seemed to make such a fuss over it, about how it would revolutionize the way everybody adds and subtracts..... It doesn't really seem to be around but the good old math is still here.

 

[gsdx]

I tried to learn the new division once. It made no sense to me at all. I still do it by X goes into Y Z time, carry the 1...

 

[Willie Boy]

Did you balance for G?

 

[gsdx]

No. Should I have?

 

[Willie Boy]

There's your trouble right there.

 

[Vitamin]

I guess I should be thankful that this new math was done away with by the time I started school.

 

[star-warrior]

Or 72 seconds per minute. 12 extra seconds per minute times 12 minutes per hour - 144 extra seconds per hour equals 1728 extra seconds per 12 hour "daylight" period (and another 1728 extra second per "night"). An extra 28.8 minutes per "daylight" or 57.6 per full 24 hour day. Somebody wants another hour per day. Or more accurately, 350.4 hours per year!

What would you do with an extra 14 days in the year?

If the physical day remains the same average length - approx 24 hours, then the modified 6x12 seconds per minute clock would work if you redefine the length of what 1 second is.

 

[Essex Boy]

Are you sure that's supposed to be a dorrmat?

Getting warm.

 

[Willie Boy]

If the physical day remains the same average length - approx 24 hours, then the modified 6x12 seconds per minute clock would work if you redefine the length of what 1 second is.

Except the clock is likely tuned to measure one second's time as one second. Therefore there will be added seconds to the "day" (or what is perceived as such). The day would actually become longer.

 

[Essex Boy]

Come on, pay attention at the back. We've done the clock already, we're on the "doormat" now.