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|    Dmitry A. Kazakov to Stefan Ram    |
|    Re: Another little puzzle    |
|    14 Dec 22 14:06:11    |
      From: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de              On 2022-12-14 13:24, Stefan Ram wrote:       > Given n times of the 24-hour day, print their average.       >       > For example, the average of "eight o'clock" and       > "ten o'clock" (n=2) would be "nine o'clock".              You probably missed to require the interesting part: doing all that in       the modular type (modulo 24) arithmetic:               20 + 5 = 1 (mod 24)              > (You can choose any representation, for example "HH:MM"       > or "seconds since midnight".)              That is not representation. Averaging hours, minutes, seconds are three       different problems, though the algorithm would be same.              --       Regards,       Dmitry A. Kazakov       http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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