Lateral Thinking Puzzles

44. How Many Seconds Are There in a Minute?

How many seconds are there in a minute? if your answer is 60, then that`s wrong. You need deep calculations here.

Submitted by dave08 · Added 22 June 2014

Solution:

The answer is actually 61 seconds in certain contexts due to the addition of a leap second to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) approximately every 18 months. However, in standard timekeeping, there are 60 seconds in a minute.


Comments (13)

krish 3 July 2014

sixty-one. the zero counts as one

dave08 5 July 2014

nope. it need hard computations.

exzzz 5 July 2014

30 seconds (2,4,6,8,10...)

sanchit 9 July 2014

56 : [60/2] + [60/4] + [60/8] +[60/16] +[60/32] where []is gif greatest

east 25 July 2014

2nd, 22nd, 32nd, 42nd, 52nd = 5 Seconds

Shubh 29 July 2014

ZERO!
All letters in the word "minute" are unique. There are no "seconds"!

dave08 16 August 2014

i said it needs hard computation

mhmagic 26 August 2014

Unlimited number of seconds in a minute

johnvic 21 November 2014

i think 59 seconds

harvey 28 November 2014

The smallest theoretically mesurable interval of time is the Planck time, which is 5.391e-44 seconds (cf. physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?plkt).
The number of distinguishable seconds in a minute should be 59 / (Planck time) = 1.094e+45.

gcedism 3 December 2014

I was going to say Infinite but harvey's reply seems to be more accurate.

polarsystem 16 November 2016

60 + twenty-second + thirty-second + forty-second + fifty-second = 60 + 20 + 30 + 40 + 50 = 200 seconds

imsequoyah 20 January 2017

there are no seconds for a minute. After the minute is over, it's gone. Now it's the next minute's turn. It won't get a second turn either.

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