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Also, I understand that rally timing and computations are done in decimal minutes. So rather than saying, "2 minutes, 18 seconds" you would say "2.30 minutes".
Jeff
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: It's so you can perform multiple mathematical operations on a
: timing without constantly resolving back to seconds Mike. So
: each step of the calculation uses decimals and you only convert
: back to seconds once done - it has engineering and business
: applications.
: I briefly touched on it in my "scales" article here:
: http://iwmagazine.com/2012/05/16/more-than-time-2/ but didn't
: give much more info than I did above really.
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