stackyFACTSPrecision is entirely subjective when your clock only has one hand. Early mechanical timepieces were designed without any mechanism to track minutes, simply pointing vaguely at the hour and leaving everyone to guesstimate exactly how much of their painfully short medieval lifespan had passed.
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