“It’s just a watch,” he said. “It’s to tell the time.” “I know that,” she said. “But you keep on fiddling with it, and it still doesn’t tell the right time. Or even anything like it.” She brought up the display on her wrist panel, which automatically produced a readout of local time. Her wrist panel had quietly got on with the business of measuring the local gravity and orbital momentum, and had noticed where the sun was and tracked its movement in the sky, all within the first few minutes of Random’s arrival. It had then quickly picked up clues from its environment as to what the local unit
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