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A grandfather has a broken grandfather clock that is off by a minute every hour....................How could he do this?

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A grandfather has a broken grandfather clock that is off by a minute every hour (too fast). He figures out a way, while keeping it running at the same rate, to make the clock say the correct time twice a day.

How could he do this?

posted Feb 25, 2019 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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He made it run backwards

answer Feb 25, 2019 by Hanifa Mammadov



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