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Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST said:
100 time units = 1hr
860 = 8hrs 36min
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Carson said:
Leave it to the Germans to over-complicate hours and minutes.
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Delish said:
1 minute = 1.66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 time units?
That's messed up even for Germany. But do they round up or down for fractional time units?
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You guys beat me to it. Why the fuck would you reinvent time? Someone couldn't figure out an Excel formula or something??? DUMB!
 
huffster said:
You guys beat me to it. Why the fuck would you reinvent time? Someone couldn't figure out an Excel formula or something??? DUMB!
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Because the manufactures only want to pay the least amount, so now it's down to seconds...

it's their game, screw the techs trying to make a living.
 
Delish said:
1 minute = 1.66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 time units?
That's messed up even for Germany. But do they round up or down for fractional time units?
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my guess is that 100 equals an hour, and a tenth = 6 minutes - nobody goes below that. and ya might be thinking about it in reverse.
1 time unit = 36 seconds. or something like that.

story: when i was at bell labs, had a phd statistician graph the start time-of-day of phone calls, and told me there was missing data because s/he treated it as a continuous number.
it was the new person, so i explained how time works to them. I've also tried to explain unix time (number of seconds passed since 1/1/1970 or something like that)
so they could have a continuous number for date and time - #headExploded
 
fidodie said:
my guess is that 100 equals an hour, and a tenth = 6 minutes - nobody goes below that. and ya might be thinking about it in reverse.
1 time unit = 36 seconds. or something like that.

story: when i was at bell labs, had a phd statistician graph the start time-of-day of phone calls, and told me there was missing data because s/he treated it as a continuous number.
it was the new person, so i explained how time works to them. I've also tried to explain unix time (number of seconds passed since 1/1/1970 or something like that)
so they could have a continuous number for date and time - #headExploded
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My dear old dad worked at the labs. I was telling him today about this non-sense. He had a laugh, and said that he had to make up some sort of cheat sheet for my sister. She has to document her at home work time, and it's different for each sublet. Some want tenths, some want 100's, some wanted another way. Anywho he made up a calculater for her.
 
TJYeti said:
After dinner Lambo.
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my man @skinnyfromthe9. his daily driver. lives down the street.

i don't know him, i don't listen to his music.
and there is more than 1 yellow lambo driving around - but it does go by often.
 
BPaze said:
Silly Americans don’t you know that is the metric measurement for time.
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There's a good reason for the not using based 10 for time. Even the Chinese scrapped that idea

Why are there 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day? Who decided on these time divisions?
  • THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC. The use of 12 subdivisions for day and night, with 60 for hours and minutes, turns out to be much more useful than (say) 10 and 100 if you want to avoid having to use complicated notations for parts of a day. Twelve is divisible by two, three, four, six and 12 itself - whereas 10 has only three divisers - whole numbers that divide it a whole number of times. Sixty has 12 divisers and because 60 = 5 x 12 it combines the advantages of both 10 and 12. In fact both 12 and 60 share the property that they have more divisers than any number smaller than themselves. This doesn't, of course, explain how this system spread throughout the world.
 
qclabrat said:
There's a good reason for the not using based 10 for time. Even the Chinese scrapped that idea

Why are there 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day? Who decided on these time divisions?
  • THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal (counting in 60s) system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC. The use of 12 subdivisions for day and night, with 60 for hours and minutes, turns out to be much more useful than (say) 10 and 100 if you want to avoid having to use complicated notations for parts of a day. Twelve is divisible by two, three, four, six and 12 itself - whereas 10 has only three divisers - whole numbers that divide it a whole number of times. Sixty has 12 divisers and because 60 = 5 x 12 it combines the advantages of both 10 and 12. In fact both 12 and 60 share the property that they have more divisers than any number smaller than themselves. This doesn't, of course, explain how this system spread throughout the world.
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Historical measurement of the second

https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/facha...he-si-second/history-of-the-unit-of-time.html
 
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