A183032 Seconds (rounded down) at which the minute hand overlaps with hour hand on the analog clock.

0, 27, 54, 21, 49, 16, 43, 10, 38, 5, 32

Offset

0,2

Comments

At which a.m. times h:m:s (with fractions of seconds) does the minute hand overlap with the hour hand on an analog clock? This is problem 43 of the quoted Loyd/Gardner book where also the solution is given (pp. 41-2, solution pp. 180-1 in the German version).

a(n) gives the full second for the (a.m.) hour h=n = 0,1,2,...,10, when the minute hand overlaps the hour hand on an analog clock, provided the minute is A178181(n), and the fraction of the second is A183033(n)/11.

For the same problem on an analog quartz clock (discrete seconds) the best approximation with rounded seconds is given in A181874.

References

Sam Loyd, Mathematische Raetsel und Spiele, ausgewaehlt und herausgegeben von Martin Gardner, Dumont, Koeln, 1978, 3. Auflage 1997.

Sam Loyd, Mathematical puzzles, selected and edited by Martin Gardner, Dover, 1959.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..10.

Formula

a(n) = floor(300*n/11) (mod 60), n=0..10.

Example

The eleven overlap times are:
00:00:00 plus 0/11 s, 01:05:27 plus 3/11 s;
02:10:54 plus 6/11 s, 03:16:21 plus 9/11 s,
04:21:49 plus 1/11 s, 05:27:16 plus 4/11 s,
06:32:43 plus 7/11 s, 07:38:10 plus 10/11 s,
08:43:38 plus 2/11 s, 09:49:05 plus 5/11 s,
10:54:32 plus 8/11 s.
The next time would be 12:00:00.

Mathematica

Table[ Floor@ Mod[300/11 n, 60], {n, 0, 10}]

Crossrefs

Cf. A178181 (minutes), A181874.

Sequence in context: A216224 A255364 A082915 * A040702 A305548 A306824

Adjacent sequences: A183029 A183030 A183031 * A183033 A183034 A183035

Keyword

nonn,fini,full,easy

Author

Wolfdieter Lang, Dec 20 2010

Status

approved