I presumed that the answer would be 47 hours, since there are 24 time zones (naively -- I'm disregarding those annoying half-hour time zones) so we want to take the sum-set: {1, 2, 3, ..., 24} + [0, 24) = [1, 48) which has measure 47. Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 at 3:07 AM From: "Dan Asimov" <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [math-fun] An end to leap seconds (was Re: SETI breakthrough: ...)
On Apr 4, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
(in the Idealized ... Model) . . . . . . Thus, 48 hours elapse between the first and last instants at which it's day D somewhere on earth.
Nope.
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