Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:17:55 GMT
Message-ID: <7Dqmd.104475$R05.22082_at_attbi_s53>

"Ja Lar" <jalar_at_nomail.com> wrote in message news:cn1qq6$ff9$1_at_news.net.uni-c.dk...
>
> > All days
> > (excluding special cases) have 23.99999999999999999999.... hours.
>
> Wrong. A normal day has 24 hours (and 86400 seconds - guess why!).

Uh, 23.999... is exactly equal to 24. Note the "..." specifies the decimal is repeating. Twenty three followed by an infinite number of nines is the same number as twenty four.

Marshall Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 18:17:55 CET

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