Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>>>> I am not used to consider minutes in decimal format (like 
>> 36.8 minutes).
>>
>> I don't think you are supposed to. The point of the web page, 
>> as I understand it, is to give you a rough idea of what is 
>> going on. Seeing a list of figures 36.8, 37.1, 35.9, 36.4, 
>> 242.8, 37.3 ... makes the full backup (or problem, or
>> whatever) stand out much more than if you obfuscate it into 
>> 4h2m48s. A list like 36.1, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.7, 36.8 ... 
>> gives you much more of an impression of how the times are 
>> developping than 36m6s, 36m12s, ... would.
> 
> It's simply about "human format": humans do not speak about 36.8
> minutes.

_Except_ when they are trying to compare different amounts of time, when 
the discrete jumps in days/hours/minutes/seconds become inconvenient to 
normal math operations.


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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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