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

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Comment author: dxu 11 March 2015 03:50:17AM *  8 points [-]

A time limit of 3:54 does seem too arbitrary to be hard-coded.

3:54 is 234 seconds, which is exactly 1/400 of 26 hours, which happens to be Harry's extended sleep cycle. I have no idea if this is significant, but just throwing it out there.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 11 March 2015 04:02:14AM 0 points [-]

So the Stone was created to be used no more than 400 times a day. This allows for the prediction that someone with a normal cycle should be able to use it every 1/400 of our normal days, or 216 seconds.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 March 2015 05:43:33AM 1 point [-]

The limit might be the result of limited capacity rather than design.

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