Both "200" and "160" are 2 minutes in microwave math

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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.

Dharma Curious (he/him)

For my microwave its 20 second intervals. But also, let's say I open the door mid-run, if the tray is rotating clockwise, when I restart it it will rotate counterclockwise. Every time you open it it reverses it's rotation.

I don't know if all microwaves do this, or just mine. I never really had cause to notice until I started making desserts and candies, where you often nuke for 10 seconds, stir, 10 seconds, stir to melt chocolate. Easiest to just set for 40 seconds and open/close than it is to reset each time. This is the only microwave I've done that with, though, so idk if it's common

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Every microwave I've ever lived with has had a knob to input time. Maybe this is a regional thing?

My old one was completely analog and just had dials for time and power and a single button to open the door. Truly an efficient interface!

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Not on all of them. Ask me how I know.

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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 didn't stick 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.

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The fastest way to get one minute on a microwave is to press the "add 30 seconds" button twice

IndiBrony

Brb, getting Lemmy gold

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I am so saving this for later

psychOdelic

my microwave has a wheel

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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 just get in the way of getting stuff done.

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I've absolutely done it before because I'm weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89... 1:88... etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.

1:60 behaves similarly.

Chris

Older (and cheaper) ones have an analogue dial. More modern ones have a digital timer.

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I didn’t realize I was so spoiled. On mine, the 1, 2, and 3 buttons add 1-3 minutes, respectively. And I don’t have to hit start either. I want a minute I press 1, done.

Ephera

I love knobs. You just turn them and the thing turns on. And no one needs an exact time measurement on a microwave anyways.

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I don't own a microwave and have no idea what you are all taking about.

Caveman

Rest of time savings can be achieved by practicing 30 minutes per day

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A trick I learned from my dad was to do a quick "9-9-start" to get about a minute and a half

snooggums

I need exact seconds and power settings for multiple things, including heating up small amounts of dog food a small amount.

People that thing microwaves suck to heat up food are just rawdogging the +30 seconds button.

snooggums

2 + 0 + 0 + start for me on every microwave I've ever owned.

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"9 0 start" is the same number of buttons. Also +30 seconds 3 times gets exactly 90 seconds. Your dad was trolling