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by pca006132 378 days ago
The nice thing is that a fully broken clock is accurate more often than a slightly deviated clock.
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A clock that's 5 seconds, 5 minutes, or 5 hours ahead, or counts an hour as 61 minutes, is still more useful than a clock that does not move it's hands at all.
Only if the deviated clock is fast. If a clock is, instead, slow, it is correct more often than a stopped clock.