Honestly, sometimes I include the "Three-Hundred Sixty-Five and a Quarter” on conference calls.
Side note: What you describe is in-fact part of how languages change and evolve. (over time, sufficiently common incorrect use becomes. well. correct.) -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Apr 16, 2020, at 3:07 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) > <li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > > Sorry I can't resist... > > If you're going for accuracy, does 24x365 mean you close one day this year? > Or should you actually be saying 24x365.25, or even more accurately > 24x365.2425 (but still not exact). > > Oh wait, we missed the leap seconds in there, which there isn't any real way > to average out since they occur at semi-random intervals. So I don't know > what we should adjust the 24 to... > > I just look at 24x7x365 as shorthand for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 > days a year", which is a common saying meaning always open. It isn't a > mathematical formula. It doesn't have to be exact or make mathematical > sense. > > There are lots of things that if you think about too hard they don't make > sense. The one this week I thought about was "hunger benefit". Does that > mean we're raising money to increase hunger? One could go on and on trying > to correct logical inconsistencies in our use of language. It's fun on > occasion to point them out, but saying that something has to be corrected > just because it doesn't make logical or mathematical sense just seems as sill > as some of the phrases that we laugh about being logically inconsistent. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:35 AM Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com > <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: > 24x7 is way more common, but does leave ambiguity as to holiday coverage. > (there are some 24x7 businesses that close for holidays). > > 24x7x365 is on the rise as a way to specify that you’re open holidays too. > > End of the day, I’m not sure it matters which one you use. > > Likely any Google search for 24x7 would return the superset {24x7,24x7x365} > while a search for 24x7x365 would return the subset {24x7x365}. > > IANASEOE, but I suspect that in terms of SEO and general search, you’re > probably better off with 24x7x365. > > Owen > > >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 01:25 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.des...@gmail.com >> <mailto:eyeronic.des...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> No. 24x7x365 is fine. Sheesh. >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 10:10 PM Ben Cannon <b...@6by7.net >> <mailto:b...@6by7.net>> wrote: >> So I’m taking this thread for a total test-drive and we’re going down this >> random ally... >> >> I call our NOC “24x7x365” I hear that in my head as “twenty-four (hour) - >> BY - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (days a year, indicating we don’t close >> on any holidays). >> >> Is that really not a thing? I swear I’ve been hearing it as a term of art >> in the industry for 20 years. Google has 1.42m results for 24x7x365 - but >> 72mil for 24x7. >> >> Should I change my website or what? >> >> Thanks for indulging me :) >> >> -Ben. >> >> >> -Ben Cannon >> CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC >> b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> >> >> >> >> >>> On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:45 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org >>> <mailto:r...@gsp.org>> wrote: >>> >>> Your home page says that you have 24x7x365 support. >>> >>> (Which is wrong, by the way. It's either 24x7 or 24x365 >>> or maybe 24x7x52 depending on what you're trying to express. >>> There is no such thing as 24x7x365. But let's press on:) >> >> (Rich’s excellent critique deleted for brevity) >>> ---rsk >>> >> > > > > -- > - Forrest
