Re: how do I convert a # to time?

Well, the formating part works, but the math... I think needs some
tweaking.

I've got some times like:

1'43999999999998

0'5.6E+14

hmm... Lemme see if I got it correctly: explode made $minutes an
integer, right? then, when calculating, you have for instance
333333333/10*60, floor'ed to 33333333333 not 0.33333333/10*60, floored
to 1 (or whatever that returns)

right?

(...) ok, simply adding a $minutes = 0.$minutes did the trick.

So, here's what I came up with:

function ReadTime($readtxt) {
 $readspeed = CountWords($readtxt);
 $readtimeraw = $readspeed / 150;
 list($min,$secs) = explode('.',$readtimeraw);
 $secs = "0.$secs";
 $secs = floor(60*($secs/10));
 $readtime = "$min'$secs\"";
return($readtime);

which calculates the estimated reading time for a story, for PN.

Can it be tweaked for speed? I'm so bad at coding...

Thanks for the help!

X's,
Murilo


"Roger Raymond" <roger-vp4IRbjYgwNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> escreveu na mensagem
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| Bah! that math is totally wrong!!! sorry
|
| Should be.
|
| // convert the decimal minutes dropping any remainder
| $minutes = floor(60*($minutes/10));
|
|
| Roger Raymond wrote:
| > Probably could use come simple math.  Just get the two parts of
the
| > number...
| >
| >     // assuming the format will always be the same
| >     list($hours,minutes) = explode('.',$number);
| >
| >     // convert the decimal minutes dropping any remainder
| >     $minutes = floor(60 / $minutes);
| >
| >     $timeAsText = "$hours'$minutes\"";
| >
| > Hope that starts you on your way :)
| >
| > Roger
| >
| > mulpinBR - 111.898.068 > http://br.xaraya.com wrote:
| >
| >> I believe it's really easy, but late at night I can't figure it
out:
| >> how could I convert for instance 2.5 to 2'30"?
| >>
| >> X's,
| >> Murilo
| >>
| >>
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