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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My microwave doesn't have buttons. Can someone see if 199 is three minutes and 19 seconds, or 159 seconds?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just tested it on mine, it seems you wait 159 seconds lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Insane! I love it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is 179 the same? Or anything over 159?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Basically the smaller two digits always count as seconds and when they hit zero, it subtracts 1 from the larger two digits and carries 60 seconds over.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This hurt my brain so badly I had to walk over to my microwave to figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was like "are people that dumb that they'll type in 100 seconds and the microwave just changes it to a minute instead"

But then I realized I was the idiot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Your comment made me laugh, well done

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to hold my hand up and type it into an imaginary microwave to get it too lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys use more than just the +30 button? Weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

my latest microwave only has a knob you can turn to set the time. the microwave starts a couple seconds after you stop turning the knob. i’m in heaven

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

99 is 0:99 so 99 seconds. 100 is 1:00 so 1 minute so 60 seconds

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

199 is 2m39s yes total normal nothing to see here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But 139 is a minute less....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this is truly terrible. they’ve gone and made 99 = 139

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Don't be mixing number systems with different bases, y'all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You see, it's because two digit numbers follow newtonian physics while three digit numbers follow quantum physics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's 120 seconds for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's called Microsoft math

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

99 > 100, seems legit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you type 9,999 your house burns down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Typing 666 could do it as well depending on what you have in the microwave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

...magnetrons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Things bogged the fuck out of me forever