Math Corner: Lost Time

Question: Assume you have a face clock whose hands indicate the exactly correct time on the date of the publication of this issue of The Current.

If your clock loses one second per hour, during what calendar year (after 2023) will the clock next display the exactly correct time?

2028
Math Corner” is a contest that appears in each issue of The Current and is a collaboration between NSU’s Department of Mathematics | NSU Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU and NSU’s Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts | Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU. Contest submissions to the Math Corner question in the Current’s latest issue can be sent to jgershma@nova.edu up until the date the next issue is published. Prizes are awarded at the end of the academic year.

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