!@#!@$ interview question, wtf ..

[Andrew Robinson]

They always overlap at the centre, so the answer is once. 

Andy_R



On 17 Oct 2012, at 15:06, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> no..22.  it will cross it from 10 to 11 pm but not from 11 to
> midnight.  and at mignight, Its another day.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That would be my guess too.
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 23?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Had a phone interview for a major mobile hardware developer today, would be a nice job doing neat cross-platform stuff in Unity3D .. so I think I'm doing great, answering the C++ questions (virtual destructors, lol!), Android lifecycles, and so on .. then, this one, which I've heard used a million times before, but got wrong 3 times before I finally worked it out:
>>>> 
>>>> "How many times a day does the minute and hour hand on a clock, overlap?"
>>>> 
>>>> P'shaw!  Why didn't I get it right the first time I tried to figure it out, grr..  ;)
>>>> 
>>>> Out of phase, out of time, out of my mind trying to work out the right answer while I can hear the interviewer grinning like a monkey on the other end .. :P
>>>> 
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