A man goes to stay in a cabin in the woods every summer. He has no radio, tv, phone or a watch, but there is a big wind-up clock in the cabin. He was asked one day how he could set the clock when he first arrived, since he didn’t know what time it was when he arrived. He said, “I just wait until I make my first trip into town on my bicycle and figure it out from that.” I objected that he wouldn’t know how long it takes to make the trip since he doesn’t have a watch. “That’s right,” he said “but that’s not a problem. And I don’t have to carry the clock into town with me either.” How did he figure out how to set the clock to the right time?
2006-08-24
12:23:25
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