Re: Another little puzzle

From	"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Another little puzzle
Date	2022-12-14 14:06 +0100
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On 2022-12-14 13:24, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Given n times of the 24-hour day, print their average.
> 
>    For example, the average of "eight o'clock" and
>    "ten o'clock" (n=2) would be "nine o'clock".

You probably missed to require the interesting part: doing all that in 
the modular type (modulo 24) arithmetic:

    20 + 5 = 1 (mod 24)

>    (You can choose any representation, for example "HH:MM"
>    or "seconds since midnight".)

That is not representation. Averaging hours, minutes, seconds are three 
different problems, though the algorithm would be same.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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