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Telling time is hard... (Original Post) sakabatou Feb 2012 OP
Boy that nine sure is self-important Duer 157099 Feb 2012 #1
It's keeps saying, "No, no, no!" sakabatou Feb 2012 #3
Herman Cain made it. baldguy Feb 2012 #13
Try my clock RC Feb 2012 #2
Holy crap sakabatou Feb 2012 #4
Whoever created this only THOUGHT they were smart. Systematic Chaos Feb 2012 #5
You calculator is broke RC Feb 2012 #7
Uh, no. Sorry. Systematic Chaos Feb 2012 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Feb 2012 #11
Oops. RC Feb 2012 #12
where did you get that picture of Herman Cain's clock? Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #6
Cool WCGreen Feb 2012 #8
keep it simple pokerfan Feb 2012 #9
I want one! UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2012 #14
 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
13. Herman Cain made it.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 10:00 AM
Feb 2012

Or rather, he paid some mook minimum wage w/o any benefits do to it for him.

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
5. Whoever created this only THOUGHT they were smart.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 12:53 AM
Feb 2012

The equation for 5:00 yields a result of 601.39521910453439454428385856533

Whoopsie!!

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
7. You calculator is broke
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 01:37 AM
Feb 2012

Have a look at this:
If you cube 5 you get 125: 5 × 5 × 5 = 125

So the cube root of 125 is 5

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
10. Uh, no. Sorry.
Reply to RC (Reply #7)
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 07:44 AM
Feb 2012

The equation is the square root of 9!, which means 9 factorial or 9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1, minus 9/9 which is of course 1.

9! is 362880, and the square root of that is 602.395...

Subtract one from that and you get 601.395...

Five in no way plays a part in any of those 12 equations, nor does any other number except 9.



On edit - Oh, I see what we have here. You were looking at the clock in the post downthread, which is completely accurate. I'm talking about the one in the OP, which is also completely accurate except for that 5:00 equation.

Response to Systematic Chaos (Reply #10)

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