From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get hours from hh:mm Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:27:48 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <873b0uie6z.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> References: <467136b6$0$69886$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <878xamk6bb.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> <46714963$0$328$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181846470 3645 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2007 18:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:41:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 14 20:41:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HyuFf-0004YE-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyuFe-0005Ih-LO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net gVYJxMsm4hlxDVV+9EY6dQDdjJb/m0PibsO43V1nQtBZWI4t6+ Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MTA5YWJjNzY1OTk4MThhMjJjNmJkNGVjYTQ3OTgxYWU2YTlhZDcwMw== Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149484 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45071 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: > Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > >> Cecil Westerhof writes: >> >>> I have a table in org-mode with time needed to travel from A to B an the >>> number of km. I would like to get the average speed. How do I convert a >>> time? For example 0:45 becomes 0.75. >> >> How do you know that 0:45 becomes 0.75? >> >> How did you do it? > > I did not. I want. 0:45 is three quarters of an hour, so in mathematical > notation 0.75. How do you know that 0:45 is THREE QUARTERS of an hour? What if it was 0:38 ? How would you compute it in "mathematical notation"? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed.