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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.   
      
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   Dmitry A. Kazakov   
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