If you want to interpret "between" strictly, then there are 28,799 ticks. (Er, assuming 1 tick = 1 second. In my experience, 1 tick sounds much closer to 1/2 second. Or maybe I never noticed that ticks alternate with tocks.) --Dan << On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Hans Havermann<pxp@rogers.com> wrote:

"Now, how many ticks are there between 8 o'clock at night and 5 o'clock in the morning? Le'me see. There's 60 minutes to an hour. That's 60 times 60 is uh, 3600 ticks to an hour, and 9 hours from 8 to 5 o'clock: that'll be 6 times 8 is 48, move the 7 where the 0 was and multiply the 0 by 8 times 3, and put the 0 over where the 7 was and that comes to 32400 ticks."

Arthur Q. Bryan in "Tickety Tock"

Um, shouldn't it be 32399 ticks?

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