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Khoth comments on We're all forgetting how to read analog clocks. Or are we? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Khoth 28 November 2010 02:06:09PM 2 points [-]

(4): I don't convert the minute-hand position into a number of minutes - I convert the angle into a duration. If I want to know how long it'll be until some other time I picture than angle swept out by the minute hand as it travels.