JoshuaZ comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gabriel 10 March 2015 07:13:30PM * 5 points [-]

Well, in seconds it's 234, which looks slightly less arbitrary.

Waait. Did whoever made it even use our time units?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 March 2015 07:16:58PM 0 points [-]

Well, seconds have been used since the Babylonian time period. However, we also don't know how carefully Harry measured the recharge time.

Comment author: TobyBartels 10 March 2015 07:53:55PM 4 points [-]

There are a lot of older units of time listed there, but none of them seem to fit.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 March 2015 07:57:21PM 3 points [-]

Huh. That's fascinating. I had apparently wrongly assumed that because it had the same division into 60 that it also was as old. Apparently not.

Comment author: DanielLC 10 March 2015 07:24:09PM 3 points [-]

Carefully enough not to round it up to 3:55. Presumably, it's within a second.