10 hours
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Topic: 10 hours
Posted By: smartpatrol
Subject: 10 hours
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 11:32
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When you check for new posts, the first several lengths of time you can choose from are every two hours, from 2 to 16. Except you can't pick ten? Why not? I can view posts from the last 2 hours, posts from the last 6 hours, and posts from the last 16. But no ten? And what about 14? This is very troubling to me. Is this really the direction PA is going; inconsistencies everywhere? TOTAL ANARCHY? ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 11:48
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The number 10 presents bizarre coding issues because of its binary format. And fourteen isn't a real number anyway. edit: since this is in the serious forum, I should add that I'm only kidding. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 12:34
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The hour interval numbers (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24) is a sequence of numbers that can be written as the product of factorials:: 1 = 1! 2 = 2! 4 = 2! x 2! 6 = 3! 8 = 2! x 2! x 2! 12 = 2! x 3! 16 = 2! x 2! x 2! x 2! 24 = 2! x 2! x 3! 10 and 14 are not part of that sequence. This has no significance, it's just one of those interesting mathematical curios. The time-intervals approximate to a crude log-scale because this is how we perceive the passage of time - it also keeps the number of options in the drop-down to a minimum while still maintaining a degree of usability.... assuming that it ever actually works.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 13:07
| Just go for 12, that will include the last 10. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 13:33
| Don't worry man. I've been here since 2006 and the forum still accuses me of spamming. |