Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> ...

> > > there is no 24th hr in a day and therefore ISO-8601 is wrong! The time
> > > in a day can be described by t, where 0:00 <= t < 24:00, and does not
> > > include 24:00.
> >
> > It can be, but that does not mean it has to be.
> > Besides, what day does not have twenty-four hours?
>
> It may depend on one's mathematical model of reality.
No. I depends on the rotatation of Earth

> Based on my
> interpretation of the math taught to me, no day has 24 hours. All days
> (excluding special cases) have 23.99999999999999999999.... hours.
Wrong. A normal day has 24 hours (and 86400 seconds - guess why!).

> At 24, it is no longer the same day. 24 is the start of the next day.
> "t" in the expression "0:00 <= t < 24:00" describes the hours in a
> day.
You are confusing "time" and "duration".

I'm standing facing due North. Look away for second....

Look at me againg: I'm stille facing North. Did I rotate an angle of 0 degrees og 360 degrees? What is my angle of direction towards north?

> However the true answer

of what question?

> may depend on answers to the following
> questions: Is the end of a day, a part of or not a part of the start
> of the next day? Is time discrete or continuous? Is the universe
> digital or analog?
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