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Like Clockwork (Posted on 2004-02-27)

A clock's minute hand has length 4 and its hour hand length 3.

What is the distance between the tips at the moment when it is increasing most rapidly?

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| Comment 28 of 34 |

The required distance is approximately 2.6457513 (correct to 7 places of decimals).

Edited on May 9, 2008, 4:11 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-11-12 02:36:43

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