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Re:Gears by jcl on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:51PM (#22313674)
It's funny how often that happens. A favorite example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pounds_(British_coin)#Desi...
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Re:Gears by nitrogen on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:08AM (#22315459)
In case anyone else couldn't tell from the image and didn't want to read all of the history:

> An oddity of the design is that it depicts nineteen interlocking gears. Because there is an odd number of them, the mechanism could not actually turn.

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Re:Gears by rezgi on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:56AM (#22316301)
That's not the case for the two pounds though. In the coin's situation, it's because the three gears at the top are interlocked and jammed.
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