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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Imagine a TV show disc, containing 4 episodes, each 40 minutes 20 seconds long.
What's the running time of the disc?
160 minutes because 40:20 rounds down to 40 and 4 times 40 is 160.
161 minutes because 4 times 40:20 is 161:20 which is rounded down to 161. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | If I am doing total running time, I add them together before I round up or down. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would say 161. I only round up/down at the end & not on each episode.
Doing it the other way, over 4 episodes you wont lose much time but over the course of an entire season/series you'd lose several minutes. | | | | Last edited: by Ardos |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | 161.
Sum, then round. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm with the others, don't do any rounding till the sums are done. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Me too... Add all sums together and then round. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Me as well - add them together, then round up/down.. | | | Berak
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hmm, the poll must be broken, so far everyone's agreed  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree with 161, that's the way I've always added them up together. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree too with 161,, BUT 160 seems more practical . | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Hmm, the poll must be broken, so far everyone's agreed Probably, I only had one option to check, the other was greyed out.  | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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