Comment on I should be banned from using microwaves

• Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  10 minutes is 999 of course.

  8:88 is closer to 10 minutes than 9:99

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• maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  66 is better for 1 minute

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  • Threeme2189@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    55 is a second closer than 66

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, but on my underpowered 600w oven, 66 is perfect

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• groet@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are those seconds? As in is 100 = one minute or 100 seconds? Because 111sec ~= 2min 444sec ~= 7 1/2 min 999sec ~= 16 1/2 min

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  • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a range in there where lower numbers can be longer times than higher ones. For instance, 111 is less time than 99, since it gets interpreted as 1:11, or 71.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s as entered on a microwave. Any one with digital time entry I’ve seen have 2 digits as seconds and then the most significant ones beyond 2 become minutes.

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• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glad to find a like-minded individual here. I generally do either 33 for that half minute heat, 55 for when it doesn’t quite need a minute, and 88, because after a buck thirty I should be stirring (if applicable).

  We had an old microwave that had the button. It failed. I went and brought a new one home, and much to my wife’s chagrin, as is in my nature, I failed to notice the lack of 30s button.

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