Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
kuneho@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou have to specify which part you’re referring to
What do you mean by that?
Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
kuneho@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou have to specify which part you’re referring to
What do you mean by that?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No matter which direction a ball rolls, part of it moves to the right, and part to the left (either top right and bottom left, or vice versa). If you don’t specify which part of the ball you’re looking at, it could be either top or bottom, so the statement is ambiguous.
kuneho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
but without this information, clockwise and anticlockwise also ambigous.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, they are well-defined. There is no missing information in “clockwise”. There is missing information in “right”.