A letter
A letter after the flight
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Dear friend, I have landed safely. We took off at ten in the evening by your clock and flew for seven hours.
Dear friend, I have landed. We took off at by your clock and flew for h.
departure , flight h.
Ten in the evening plus seven hours is twenty-nine o'clock, and on a clock of twenty-four hours that is five in the morning of the next day, by your clock. The clocks here are four hours ahead of yours, so my watch says nine. I stepped off the plane into the morning sun.
: by your clock it is the next day. Here the clocks are h ahead: . My watch says , in the morning sun.
; here , so .
My body still believes it is five in the morning and wants to sleep. They say it needs about one day for every hour of difference, so it will take about four days to catch up with the clock.
My body still says and wants to sleep. About one day is needed for every hour of difference: the gap is h, so the adjustment is days.
body: . Gap hours, adjustment days: .
Please ring me at two in the afternoon, your time. Here it will be six in the evening, and I shall be awake, and hungry.
Ring me at your time: , so it is here. I shall be awake, and hungry.
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Letters of words: 534 → 278 → 48.
How to read the signs
- is congruent to; has the same remainder as
- modulo twenty-four: on a twenty-four-hour clock
- so; it follows that
- is about
- delta: the difference in