...Okay, take five pennies and lay them down in front of you so that they form a "V" meaning that if you were looking at a clock there would be one at the middle of the dial and two where the long hand would be if it were noon and the other two where the long hand would be if you were looking at three o'clock. Got it, so far? At noon, and at 3 o'clock the LONG hand (=minute hand) would point to 12!