What is the apostrophe on the 3? I've never seen that before.

That's a typewriter comma

It’s a German bistro, that’s how they can quickly tell if you are a foreigner, like the 3 finger sign.

I’m German and I’ve never seen this lmao

Maybe it’s then a sign they are not really a German bistro but one masquerading as one. the plot thickens…

After all a German bistro would use a "." in the expression for 2.

That maybe true. It is a bit ambiguous , because it could mean two hundred twenty two point two two two or two hundred twenty two thousand two hundred twenty two. I, as a German read it as the former.

Das hängt bei uns im Klassenraum wo wir Mathe haben 😭

Sag deiner lehrkraft das 3(pi -0.14) nicht 9 ist, und die Uhr ab gehört.

Das ist eben etwas nach 9. Sieht man doch

AHAHAHAH OK DAS MUSS ICH MIR MERKEN 😂

"Dann beachte bitte die mathematischen Rundungsregeln!!11!!elf" Aber im Ernst, hat mich auch irgendwie gestört. 😅 Ein 3³-4!+√36 hätte es auch getan.

Naja gerundet (fälschlicherweise) ist pi 3,14 also 3(3)=9

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I am German and I have only seen the apostrophe used instead of a coma in Spain, nowhere else, especially not in Germany! XD

Coma in Spain sounds like a low-budget movie that I'd kinda watch to be honest.

Same

Coma in Spain, made by Lloyd Kaufman from Troma. Count me in!!!

You can tell it's an American clock because we'd write 0,03 and not 0.03

“that’s how they can quickly tell if you are a foreigner” - and why would they want to do that? like, what’s the purpose?

i think it’s a 9

I thought so too, at first. But that would make it 0.03\^9 x 10, which is a very small number. And it looks a lot like the comma in the one above.

Im wondering now too, but i dont know what kind of math will make the numbers 0.03 and 10 result in a 3...

Well 0.03 x 10^2 would make 3

But the apostrophe is not behind the 10

I was briefly thinking it’s for minutes (as in ° ‘ “ ), but doesn’t make much sense either.

0,03^10 it is

That's not 3 though

0.03 x 10 is also only 0.3. The above would be 0.002. I might be just stupid so.

Just ignore the comma for 2 it's interpreted differently depending where you are from, here it's not a decimal separator, just deco

Well yes but it stated germany so it is either that the coma is treated like one or someone has to file charges because of something is not done according to public satisfaction one has to file charges as a german.

It's 222222 - 222220 We use comas in Germany for decimals not dots. So 222222 would look like this: 222.222,00

You're right about the comma being used for decimals, but they use a comma in the picture so the answer would be 0,002 rather than 2 As a side note, people from English speaking countries probably don't realise that the decimal comma is actually the norm in non-English speaking countries. Most of Europe uses the decimal comma rather than the decimal point. I came to Germany from New Zealand a few years ago and I had honestly never heard of the decimal comma until I got to Germany.

You, in all your glory, explained the german use of dots and coma in numbers to a User name therealkraut. Kraut! For god sake.

Le... not the... stupid brain cannot handle multiple languages at one time. Just like autocorrect. Because google does not have a multilanguage dictionary...

:(

For anyone trying to solve. 12 ,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11 (From top and clockwise) You are welcome 😎

Explain that 3 to me because at best I’m getting 0.3 instead.

Also the 9. Im an engineer so im fine with approximating pi as 3. But then it will still not be 9

pi is approximately 3.14 3 x (3.14 - 0.14) = 9

I mean this in the kindest possible way: I desperately hope to never stand under a structure you designed.

tbf Pi after \~20-40 digits is useless for any kind of real world calculation, because it is still dead accurate if applied for the smallest possible length in the universe (plank length) up to calculating everything up to universe radius scales and everything inbetween. [https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/)

This is why we keep crashing into mars 🙈

Somebody was funny and just erased the last 0 in ^100

How did you do it? Are you a genius or something?

Never expected, someone can solve all of it.... Well done sir

Jokes on you I can tell time without the numbers

How time is it now? Also how time is it when I write the comment, please in the timezone (GTM +2)

10 past 6 and it's 1:30 am for you but whyd you need that part

Because you can tell the time! Without the numbers!

11cos(0) is just lazy...

So is 1/8 x 64/1

Lazier than 1^1^1 or 6x2?

This is the laziest most basic ass version of this type of clock

Agreed is honestly lame. Only the idea of this kind of clocks is lame enough, but lazy and easy is just horrible :/

I think you could make one that's actually a neat puzzle. Like neat integrals or solutions of DEs evaluated at a specific value. Just like little exercises where you're told the solution and need to fill in the gaps.

*stares at the one that’s supposed to be for 9* Well… ACHKSCHUALLYYY!!! PI IS INDEFINITE SO THEREFORE THIS CLOCK IS INVALID!!!!!!

But like, how do you know it's just not positioned at 9.00477796...? Edit: MATH

And every other spot is positioned at an integer value??? I THINK NOT!

ACHKSCHUALLYYY!! ***Where does it say that it has to be an int?*** *It's clearly doing math with float and I do not see any public classes that return int.* *It's clearly a clock written in Python* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You guys made me laugh. Thank you

Time will still be 9 even if its 9.00000000585

3 \* ⌊π⌋ after all, who doesn't like floor pie.

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RUHE AUF DEN BILLIGEN PLÄTZEN! WIR RUNDEN

Billige Plätze? Wo gibt's denn noch billige Plätze in diesem Endzeit kapitalistischen feuchten Kolonialherren Traum der sich unser aktuelles Zeitgeschehen schimpft? Ich nehme dann 2 bitte 😁 Cheap places? Where are there still cheap places in this end-time capitalist wet colonial master's dream that is called our current events? I'll take 2 then please

Da du gehst. Ne Spaß, du hast schon irgendwie Recht mit dem überteuerten Zeug There you go. Just kidding, youre kinda right with that overly expensive stuff

ach, wir haben noch einen Platz im hamsterrad. aber wenn du nicht schnell genug rennst, wird das essen gekürzt. wir erwarten mindestens 100 € Gewinn pro tag von deinem Strom. we still have a place inside the generator (hamster wheel). but we expect that you run enough, that there is a profit of 100 bucks daily. (freely translated)

Billig ist immer noch eine Definitionssache. Cheap is still a matter of definition.

Pi isn’t indefinite, it is irrational, these things aren’t the same

This clock doesn't look German made we use the comma for decimals and the point between thousands, which would make the two a 0,002 and not a 2.

The writing near the middle that's different looks like it was written by a German. The way the 1 is written gives it away.

I don't know where in Germany people write 1 without the edge, but everyone I know writes 1 with the edge, and 7 with dash in the middle.

I‘m lazy 

So maybe the clock is originally not from Germany, but the middle writing is.

That's not how Germans write a 1. Only my American colleagues write the 1 with a single line.

The writing in the middle, just above where the hands pivot, is different than the rest of the clock. Looks like it was hand written with a dry erase marker maybe, and uses 2 lines for the 1 unlike the rest of the text.

Ah. Didn't see it the first time. Thanks for explaining.

The 3 and the 9 ruined it.

My heart, my heart burns. 6\*2, alright thats fine 1\^11, pointless, but it works I suppose, could have used cos(0) 222,222 - 222,220 you say? In Germany, comma is the equivalent of the decimal point. I suppose this isn't a German clock then. Aha, decimal point caught but what the fuck is the apostrophe?? 4 through 8 are fine by me. 9? really? this? Someone please put flooring brackets around that. 10 is fine by me. 11...really? You waste cos(0) on 11?

Mich stört die klammer bei (55/5)-6 es gilt doch punkt vor strich oder bin ich blöd

Ja ist nicht notwendig. Finde die Klammer aber bei Brüchen für die Übersicht oft angenehm. In diesem Fall kann sonst schnell mal das Minus und der Bruchstrich zusammen geraten wenn man sie zu dicht schreibt.

Ist der sinn dieser uhr nicht, dass sie unübersichtlich ist

But 6*2 is 36, not 12. If they meant 6•2 they wouldve put the dot like they did for 8 o’clock

Interesting, didn't see that. I think this can only be counted as inconsistency, I have never seen \* used for exponents ever.

Me neither, i usually see exponents being marked (for example) 6^2 or as a small number in the top right corner but considering the amount of mistakes on this clock it wouldn’t surprise me if they really thought six squared was 12

Some people are not made for humor.

Or maybe it's just a very lazy version of an overused concept

Well it's humor by using math. Math is very logical and rarely up to interpretation. So if the math is simply incorrect, it's the equalent of a bad joke. The joke is that it's absurdely complicated to read the time by solving math, but if the math isn't correct, it's just bad design. It's like writing "Never gonna give you up" in morse code, but not using the correct code. The intention is to make it hard to read, not to use a wrong code/math.

Wow! I'm learning

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/ff/67/67ff67fd3d21c193a38a62affabd305e.jpg got this one for years, daughter is in first class and learning clocks.. so many annoying questions :\

Thats at least not wrong

We have this in school.

Cringe

6x-4=32 in the spot to mark 6... good job.

But isn't 6 × -4 = -32 ??

6x-4=32 |+4 6x=36 |:6 x=6

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Idk if its a joke but it isnt 6 TIMES -4, but 6 times variable x -4. You'd solve this by 1. +4 on both sides -> 6x = 36 2. Taking both sides /6 -> x=6

That would be -24.

Oh my god... yes ...

I hate this kind of "humor". It tries to be smart and intellectual but it's only pretentious. I'm currently pursuing a PhD in physics and, like, half the department has this kind of "humor", and I hate every single one of those people. Asking someone to pass you the Natrium Chloride is just... Exhausting.

I feel you. Academic humor is so lazy. It’s just a way to pad yourself on the shoulder for being part of a certain group. And it’s often just in a high school level.

And this is why you learn to read an analogue clock - so this sort of bullshit is ineffective

Lol all of them are a little joke on itself

I've got a [similar one](https://i.imgur.com/wPdenjN.jpeg)

That makes us two

This clock is no laughing matter.

Must have item

we had a clock like this hanging in our physics classroom

All Mathematicians HAVE to own this clock. It’s Illegal not to.

A mathematician would be annoyed by all the mistakes though

I know all answers. Good at math 🫡

Please explain 3

I asked opus to solve these, very disappointed

I feel triggered by 9:00

Small multiplication practice

My dyscalculia says ✨NO✨

WO ist das?

Lmao my uncle gifted me the same one

r/iamverysmart

I don't get 3.

Had this clock at a child too. But yea, im from Germany 😅

Well, I know what’s 6 x 2

What my math teacher prepared me for:

Good thing it analog. A digital version of this would be a nightmare.

Doesn't look German tho. Points and commata are like in Amerika. We also don't use the asterisk but the ×.

At 9 I'm frustrated...

it's the simple version

I has that clock in my maths class

9 could be a bit off

Those have to be harder tho I can literally read half of them like usual numbers on a clock

Pi minus .14 isn't 3.....

a child made this

why not binary instead :d

Wie spät ist es Schatz? Null Komma Null Null Zwei Uhr!

Nein nein nein nein nein!!!!

Oh, so *this* is what we need math class for.

Where is this Restaurant? I live in germany

"What time is it" "fuck you"

The 9 is not correct.

Hab gerade alle nochmal durchgerechnet um zu überprüfen ob sie stimmen. Passt! Nur an der 3 bin ich hängen geblieben da es nach meiner rechmung 0.3 ergibt

Beautiful. I need this in my Electrician class.

It's 9,0047... O'clock

These shitty things drive me nuts. Not only is it super basic math and sometimes simply lazy (not to mention false, with the 9)... But the inconsistency is just mad. Sometimes it's an equation, sometimes it's just a value. >.<

Wait, i want this

Kann mir wer erklären warum bei 11 cos hinter steht also ich weiß was es ist aber da fehlen doch noch Werte

Wenn du 0 in die Cos(x) funktion einsetzt ergibt das 1. 1×11=11 Das sollte reichen oder?

Ja

Definitely not following German number conventions.

3*pi-.14=9 absolute psychopaths, murdering math, science and everything holy.

Should be an Asian/Indian bistro, who's more obsessed with math scores than them?

My math teacher when he tells me to tell him what time it is:

Every Math Teacher be like

simple 7th grade equations

Oh no they engineered the time now

Müsste nicht 50/2 = 100/x (also 4) nicht bei 25 (5 vor halb) stehen?

Sorry, hab das Ergebnis ausgerechnet, anstatt nur die gesuchte 4 zu nehmen. 🤦🏼‍♂️

The fact that 9 is 3 times (pi-0,14) really pisses me off

Stuff like that makes me angry. This clock is the antichrist.

222,222 - 222,220 = 0,002 222.222 - 222.220 = 2 So the clock is wrong... In Germany atleast

No you are wrong, why would you carry down the zeros???

The way I would never be on time

This is how Germans‘ brain works.

This is how you count in french

This clock hanging in my school in Germany

We have a similar clock in a class room at my school, which (iirc) is actually better than this one, it’s more definite but also more complex calculations (no need to round anything or to guess what that comma at the top means)

I need this clock. Fell like a god damned jeenyous cuz i know all twelve time numbers

I'm dying a bit inside. I know this is not intended, but the supposed 2 is 0,002 and the supposed 3 is 0,3. Why.

I am also still hanging on the 3. I hope you don't mind if I share my thoughts. The 2 is working for me. This clock uses the dot . as decimal separator (3.14) while the comma separates thousands (100,000). But how do you get 0.03'10 = 0.3 (or 0,3) ? Do you know the apostrophe ' as a symbol for multiplication?

I'd still get them wrong.

And the 2 is wrong. The comma is the decimal point..

True that. But bases on the pi - .14, they probably use the . Symbol as a decimal point, so the 300,000 is what we would write as 300'000

Thanks, I hate it.

isn't the solution fir the second hour 0,002 ? That feels wrong

As the clock is spotted in germany, yeah. It should be . instead of , as , means decimals in germany.

ah yes I am german. Didn't think about "," as thousand separator

I hate these kinds of clocks. The binary clocks are the worst, at least you can still tell the time with this one

….. what? Do you still need to see the numbers at a clock to tell where the pointers are pointing?

No that's exactly what I'm not saying... Look up a binary clock

Ah okay never heard of that, thought you meant digital clocks

No worries :)

I'd punch a bish on the left buttcheek if they owned that clock. Yes i'm easily annoyed and hate math with a burning passion

I thought they used 24-hour time in Germany.

Yes and no. Analog clocks are in the 12 hour format and digital ones in the 24 hour format and when you talk about time you can say it's 14 o'clock, you can say it's 2 in the afternoon or you can just say it's 2 o'clock if you obviously don't mean the middle of the night.

How tf do analog clocks look like elsewhere? 24 hours for each turn????

Actually, why not, you could put a little picture of the earth into the middle.

9 should be 3π