Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Clock problem

From [1]:



The hour, minute and second hands of this clock are all the same length and move smoothly in a circle. The dial contains hour and minute markers, but the numbers are missing. Therefore, it’s impossible to tell which one of the 12 hour markers belongs to the 12. The two hands on the left are positioned exactly on hour markers, and the hand on the right is positioned between a minute and an hour marker. What time does the clock show?


It is possible to solve this without really any math, but, of course, here I try to model this as a mathematical programming model.