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My best tip? Pick the XhYm notation and stick to it. Your mom probably knows how to add minutes. Don’t bother giving her decimal notations. BTW 0.1hour = 6 mins, so 4.10 is 4h6m, while 4.17hours = 4h10m.

Posted by O.F. Jay on 22 August 2005 @ 11pm

At work, they use the decimal notations, so I had to show her those.

Posted by Bryan on 23 August 2005 @ 6am

Try converting the number of hours paid to a percentage. So 4.10 would be 410% of 1h (time worked) or whatever the hourly wage is (time paid).

Posted by Chris on 23 August 2005 @ 9am

410% of an hour is just as profound as the conversions I tried to explain. You know,

So how could I explain that to my mom? That’s pretty much the same thing. She just doesn’t understand that 4.10 isn’t 4 hours and 10 minutes. The reason is that she doesn’t work over 4 1/2 hours for this part-time job; her time clock won’t show anything more than 4.50.

If it’s 4.20, she thinks it’s 4 hours and 20 minutes, etc.

I made a couple notes on the sheet picture above (I love Flickr). I still don’t know how to better explain it. There’s gotta be some simple diagram how this all works.

Posted by Bryan on 23 August 2005 @ 9am

Never admitted I knew what I was talking about.

Posted by Chris on 23 August 2005 @ 12pm

HAHAHA!!! You’re a funny guy, Chris.

Posted by Bryan on 23 August 2005 @ 1pm

Does it really matter down to a 10th of a hour?

She does at least have a good idea right?

Posted by Anthony on 23 August 2005 @ 6pm

No, she doesn’t really get it. And yes, it does matter to her. Again, she still thinks 4.10 is 4 hours and 10 minutes.

Posted by Bryan on 23 August 2005 @ 6pm

Haha~
This is a funny post.
If your mom still thinks 4.10 as 4 hours and 10 minutes, then as ask her what she thinks 4.90 mean.

Posted by Luce on 24 April 2006 @ 8pm

Me again. Maybe you can explain to your mom that the number after the decimal point is presented, for mathematical purpose, as if the there were 100 minutes per hour. Since it’s not true and we have only 60 minutes per hour, we need to transform the value after the decimal point.
Here is how it works.
Say, 4.10–> you will write
10/100=x/60
solve for x. That’s changing the unite to regular minutes.

Hope this helps.

Posted by Luce on 24 April 2006 @ 8pm

Hey Luce, thanks for resurrecting this post!

I remember asking her if she ever figured it out, and she says she did. I think she just didn’t want to discuss it anymore. I’ll definitely try to remember that for future reference. (Well, if this blog is still here, it’s searchable - yay!)

Posted by Bryan on 24 April 2006 @ 9pm

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