Because 2:00 = 1:60
Or are we going to implement metric time?
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The French tried to, briefly.
I get the 2:00, but shouldn't it be 120? Or am I dumber than I thought? 60+60 still = 120, right?
It's not 160 (seconds) it's 1 (minutes) **:**60 (seconds). My microwave always keeps the : when I input time.
1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.
120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.
Took me a bit to get too.
You can also punch in 90 to get 1:30. I may have been extra lazy a few times to learn that.
It's not really lazy until you're putting in "88" to save a keystroke and extra finger movement.
my microwave has a wheel
They all do, you put the food on it and it spins while its cooking.
And if my grandma had wheels she’d have been a bicycle
My grandma had wheels. She had both a car, AND a walker.
Everyone would get a ride
I used to have one like that as well, most baffling design decision I've ever seen
Edit: Clarification:
I'm not down with all this fancy technology.
My microwave has a dial and some cogs and that's about as far as I'm prepared to go. An added bonus is that I don't get blinded whenever walking into the kitchen in the middle of the night
what?????? I have NEvER and I mean NEVER!!! seen a microwave with buttons EVER!!! in real life.
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.”
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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.
Your microwave does math funny
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