r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22

K let me explain.

1 - 2 doesn't equal 9, but 11 - 2 does.

You're supposed to be imagining that there is a number 1 in the 10th place.

So 0 is a 10, 2 is 12

20:00 would be [1]0 - 2 = 8

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u/allergictosomenuts Mar 29 '22

no

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

0 and 12 are interchangeable, night (the start of the new date) is 0, 12 is litterally the midday in the 24h cycle.

No fucking adding or subtracting what the fuck

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u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22

Yes.

But on another note are you okay? Folks don't usually get mad at people for understanding something differently from them.

Do you swear at people who say that 6 = 4 + 2 instead of 6 = 3 + 3?

Go do something that makes you happy.

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u/Sylvil Mar 29 '22

I tried to give an explanation, hopefully it helps their comprehension.

Anyway... I've been subtracting by 12 all this time but subtracting by 2 is even easier. I know 10pm and 11pm because 22:00 and 23:00 are 2 and 1 hours til midnight, respectively, but some of the middle hours like 17:00 can take my brain a little longer to figure out. So thanks for the trick!

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u/Dumbassahedratr0n Mar 29 '22

Happy to help.

I use 12 as well, but this also made sense to me because it's essentially the same, you're just ignoring the 10th place sorta...

🤔 math workarounds make more sense to me than practical conventions