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The clock should be simple -- the hour hand is a quarter of its way to 4 o'clock, so: 360*((1/12)/4) = 7.5 degrees.



Is the trick that some people think it’s zero or something?


You need to remember that the hour hand slightly moves.


Clearly the interviewing Googler with a 250k salary doesn't value a decent wrist watch where whole minutes and hours tick over nicely in a single movement. ;-)


> Clearly the interviewing Googler with a 250k salary doesn't value a decent wrist watch where whole minutes and hours tick over nicely in a single movement. ;-)

I've never seen a watch where the hour ticks over in a single movement. Do those exist? I imagine it'd be very confusing to see the minute hand at 59 and the hour hand still at 0100 when it's 0159.


First you need to know/remember how analog clocks looked like back in the day.


I have a great video of my kids trying to figure out what a pay phone is back in ~2014. Not rotary, but a similar sort of "wow, I'm old" sort of experience.


Back in the day?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=analog+clock

Though I was surprised the autocomplete suggests "analog clock for kids learning"




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