I’m not sure 160 is 2 minutes on my microwave.
What happens when you type “1-6-0” on the time?
It probably becomes 1m 60s. I’ve had microwaves do it both ways, either having it only be in seconds or having seconds for two digits.
Edit: I’m dumb and very tired from Holidays, I’m leaving this up anyways though.
I’ve absolutely done it before because I’m weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89… 1:88… etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.
1:60 behaves similarly.
I have a feeling the “add 30 seconds” button will correct it to proper time format, but I’ll test it for science.
A trick I learned from my dad was to do a quick “9-9-start” to get about a minute and a half
I dunno. I’ve never put in a time on my microwave - i just use the add button. Does it give you a minute and 60 seconds. Thats weird.
I have an analog microwave from 2007. It just has a mechanical timer
Chalk it up to a Christmas food coma cause I didn’t catch that until you said it
Clearly shows that hours and minutes are messy units. The French Revolution fixed a lot of stupid problems, but decimal time just didn’t stick for some reason.
Cannot say why decimal time didn’t stick, but a similarly-proposed semi-decimal calendar with 12 months of 3 weeks each of 10 days was abandoned in France solely because Napoleon didn’t like it.
It was also designed to frustrate Sunday church attendance because Sundays being every seven days would usually fall on a weekday on a workweek based on a ten-day week. While Revolutionary France experimented with state atheism and then deism, it eventually returned to Catholicism.
France spread its decimal measurements (the metre, gram, and litre) to the countries that Napoleon conquered or tried to conquer, but by that time, France was well beyond the “stamp out all semblance of religion” phase of its revolution, so a calendar designed with the intent to stifle religious attendance in mind was never going to stick very long once the French had left those territories. Besides, doing maths on length, volume, and mass is something that people do far more often than performing those calculations on dates. Sure, it would have made some things more convenient, but I’m guessing that for most people, the ten-day weeks just stuck out like a sore thumb.
In normal everyday life, you rarely need to involve time in your calculations. In science and engineering you do, and that’s when you run into problems.
When comparing two pumps, you run into issues like this. Which one is bigger: 29 m^3/h or 410 l/min. Doing calculations like that once or twice is recreational mathematics, but in a professional setting, these conversions are speed bumps standing in the way of getting stuff done.
Don’t they have conversation lookup tables for stuff like that? Been years since I was in school so maybe those aren’t really used anymore? At least to convert the numerator to different units.
Pump manufacturers are like: “We’re selling this professional grade stuff to people who know what they’re doing. They know how to math their way through this mess.”
They do, his take is nonsense and sounds like RP, don’t take it too seriously. Any trained engineer can tell you the historical reasons why we use base 60 for circles. This is actually a well known computer science issue, but not an engineering or math one.
Your microwave does math funny
Sub-Thought: I wonder how many people punch in “1:00” instead of “60”?
+30s button, twice
I do
“9999” equals 1 hour, 40 mins, and 39 seconds
Meanwhile, to heat up some chicken gently for my mutt it’s
Power power power power power power power start one zero zero start.
(one minute at 500 watts)
I miss my Akai at home with its memory button.
Every microwave I’ve had, you hit the power button then the number corresponding to the power level you want.
Really? Every microwave I’ve had you hit a number and it’s cooks your food for that many minutes. No power option, but you can set it prior to heating your food.
They are saying that. Its a button on the microwave, you hit it before or after the time input, but its not usually a repeatedly hit button. On mine I would hit the time I wanted, then power, then the number for the percent power I want like 5 is 50%, then start.
I do have a potatoe button that works by pressing it over and over to select weight though.
Isn’t 159 faster
+30s +30s +30s +30s
My microwave doesn’t have speed cook, so this is the fastest way to get 2m on the clock
2 + 0 + 0 + start for me on every microwave I’ve ever owned.
Sure, but that’s 4 presses on 3 buttons. I can press the same button 4 times much faster.
Over the course of a lifetime, we’re taking double, maybe TRIPLE DIGIT seconds saved!
Jokes on you, my 6 button doesn’t work so 160 gets me 10 seconds
Hyssst. Universes false vacuum state might collapse.
