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Palindrome time

IBM Research · Ponder This · 2009-05

IBM Ponder This #133 · May 2009

Find all times that when viewed as

  1. an analog watch, the second hand is a bisector of the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand.
  2. a digital watch, the time is palindrome.

Update (05/01): To clarify: the time should satisfy both conditions when the analog clock moves continuously, while the digital one is rounded to the nearest second and shows the time in hh:mm:ss format.

Solution

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