Stopped Watch
An analogue watch which stopped without batteries, how many times does it show the correct time in 24hrs? (given that it does not indicate 'am' or 'pm')
With the same reasoning, a digital watch that stopped without batteries how many times does it show the correct time in 24hrs? (given it is not set on the 24-hour mode)
-by gilumar-
With the same reasoning, a digital watch that stopped without batteries how many times does it show the correct time in 24hrs? (given it is not set on the 24-hour mode)
-by gilumar-
Labels: logic, SharedPuzzle
posted by Mr Fahrenheit at
9:19 AM
10 Comments:
Analog twice.
Digital none.
an.-one
digi.-one
In the airport in Israel there is digital watches that switching labels every minute so when the battery runs out they only stop switching labels so that kind of digital watch will be correct only one in 24 hours.
buy new batteries =)
This depends. Does the day change at 12:00 midnight or 12:01AM
anon # 1 had it
Analog - twice in a 24hr period. Whatever time the watch stopped at, each day once in the AM and once in the PM time till be be correct.
Digital - none, It's out of batteries, nothing is displayed.
If you believe that the sun rising in a certain way starts a cycle of 24 hours, then you would still need to know whether you stayed in your time zone.
the first answer is the only reasonable one. Because the digital watch wont show anything at all without batteries.
That is a good answer, but who, in that riddle, assured you that the analog watch had been wound? You assume it has, but that information is not provided.
Timothy
You don't wind a watch that runs on batteries. Winding the watch is what give it power. If you don't wind it and it stops, it's still right twice a day.
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