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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!              --       Richard Heathfield       Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk       "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999       Sig line 4 vacant - apply within              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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