Hello Feli! On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 10:35 AM, you wrote:
FW>>>> 300 seconds are only 5 minutes, 5 hours have 18000 seconds! MB>>> Musicians can't count. :gdr: :) MB>> And then I thought, again. Hmm 60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes MB>> to the hour: MB>> 60 x 60 = 3600 seconds to the hour FW> correct MB>> 3600 x 60 = 21,600 FW> false, 3600 x 60 = 216 000 but why did you multiply the hours by 60? :confused: FW> There was 5 hours time difference and this results in 18 000 seconds. Because it felt so harmonious? 60x60x60, a nice neat cube, except I left off the zero. And it fits in with all the degrees of longitude of the earth. And, and ... I went off in a daydream? FW> Calculating time differences is very common to meteorologists (like FW> me) :-) Of course. But not to computer specialists/amateur musicians like Dan G. And nor to English majors like me. <vbg> MB>> Therefore, computer specialists and English majors can't multiply! FW> they have computers for that :compute: I love it! MB>> QED Whut? FW> quot erat demonstrandum what? QED Computer specialists/amateur musicians and English majors can't multiply! The "whut" is the English major's mantra. I picked the spelling up from Terry Pratchett in his SF/Satire novel *Interesting Times*. -- Best regards, Mary :Trill: The Bat! 3.0.2.1 (Professional Edition) on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
