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   Richard Heathfield to Dmitry A. Kazakov   
   Re: Another little puzzle   
   14 Dec 22 13:10:54   
   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 14/12/2022 1:06 pm, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:   
   > 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)   
      
   ...which will give you the wrong answer. Chase that goose!   
      
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