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Re:'Temperamental' Big Ben was ringing up to six seconds late by tfm on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:07AM (#10122026)
The "length of the pendulum" (for the purposes of calculating its period) is specifically the distance between the the pivot and the pendulum's centre of mass. Adding coins to the pendulum moves the centre of mass ever so slightly!
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