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		Perdition on Oct 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a... Yeah that irked me as well. "1.5 minutes" "One and a half minutes" "one minute and thirty seconds" The use of the colon to separate hours/minutes and minutes/seconds means that you need to supply units to tell which it is, but "1:30 minutes" seems wrong.

GavinB on Oct 22, 2014 [–]

"90 seconds" may be the best sounding alternative.

quiqueqs on Oct 22, 2014 | [–]

I like this :)

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