• Zron@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The whole thing is rotating to the right, that’s what clockwise means. Clocks rotate to the right. One arrow is not pointing left, it’s pointing in the direction of rotation, which is to the right.

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        2 months ago

        If you follow that arrow around to the next with your hand, which direction is your hand moving?

        That is indicating clockwise rotation, or a rotation to the right. We’re talking about circles here

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          If I start at the beginning of the arrow and follow it, it’s moving left.

          If clockwise was the same thing as right, we wouldn’t use that term.