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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8608237" data-attributes="member: 67338">and I say it is reasonable to say 24 seconds is so close to no time that it is perfect... and it is reasonable to say 'about' if it is a time frame you need a stop watch to measure. then where does the saying 'a watched pot never boils' from if not our inability to tell precise time? except it was an estimate... not an exact count. it isn't wrong it just took a bit longer... and in this case it is 24 seconds.if 4-7 minutes is about 5 minutes... and that is hundreds of seconds off how can 24 seconds bug you?says who?&nbsp; I want to know who told you 45 minutes ISN'T about an hour? where is this rule? what dictionary shows you the sliding scale of how often 24 seconds is and is not 'close enough? no... it's an estamat...where do you get this from? Who taught you that any amount of time less then a minute (except in rare cases of exact measurements) can't be just rounding errors... and as such 'about'...if in real life someone told me something would take 'about 30 seconds' I would never say they were 'wrong' for it taking 5 second, or 55 seconds... its still 'about 30 seconds'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 8608237, member: 67338"] and I say it is reasonable to say 24 seconds is so close to no time that it is perfect... and it is reasonable to say 'about' if it is a time frame you need a stop watch to measure. then where does the saying 'a watched pot never boils' from if not our inability to tell precise time? except it was an estimate... not an exact count. it isn't wrong it just took a bit longer... and in this case it is 24 seconds. if 4-7 minutes is about 5 minutes... and that is hundreds of seconds off how can 24 seconds bug you? says who? I want to know who told you 45 minutes ISN'T about an hour? where is this rule? what dictionary shows you the sliding scale of how often 24 seconds is and is not 'close enough? no... it's an estamat... where do you get this from? Who taught you that any amount of time less then a minute (except in rare cases of exact measurements) can't be just rounding errors... and as such 'about'... if in real life someone told me something would take 'about 30 seconds' I would never say they were 'wrong' for it taking 5 second, or 55 seconds... its still 'about 30 seconds' [/QUOTE]

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