Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Solution (rot13) to "another clock problem" Message-ID: <421@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 19:37:44 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.421 Posted: Sun Feb 17 19:37:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Feb-85 21:41:47 EST References: <121@uwvax.UUCP> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Distribution: net Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 16 Summary: Was that a red herring about calculus? Guvf vf rnfl, naq lbh qba'g arrq pnyphyhf. (Ng yrnfg, lbh qba'g arrq gb gnxr qrevingvirf naq gur yvxr. Jung haqreyvrf gur fbyhgvba vf nabgure znggre.) Yrg gur zvahgr unaq or BZ naq gur ubhe unaq BU. Gura BZ=4, BU=3, naq obgu cbvagf Z naq U ner eribyivat, rnpu ng n havsbez fcrrq, nobhg gur pragre B. Abj fjvgpu gb n havsbezyl ebgngvat senzr bs ersrerapr fb gung BZ vf svkrq. Va guvf senzr, U jvyy fgvyy or havsbezyl eribyivat nobhg B, gubhtu ng n qvssrerag fcrrq. Fvapr U vf zbivat ng n pbafgnag fcrrq, vgf qvfgnapr sebz Z zhfg or vapernfvat zbfg encvqyl jura vg vf zbivat qverpgyl njnl sebz Z, vs guvf rire unccraf; naq vg qbrf, ba nygreangr bppnfvbaf jura natyr BUZ vf n evtug natyr. Jr gura fvzcyl nccyl Clguntbenf gb ernpu gur nafjre ZU = fdeg(7). Znex Oenqre