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I prefer "stopped clock," since broken clocks can often continue ticking, albeit at the wrong speed.
A broken clock, whether it ticks too fast or too slow, is still right at least once every 24 hours, I think.
The only exception would be one that ticks correctly but is not set to the right time (does this count as broken?)
If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here..)
A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never....
I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually....
If a 24-hr clock is one second slow per day, its correct once every 236 years.
I mean with her she's right less than once a day.