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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by tim333 on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:22AM (#26863042)
It's popular for time. See you in an an hour rather than in 0.041666 days.
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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by Majestic121 on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:10PM (#26864375)
That's a bad example, because you use exactly one hour.

If you divide the day in 10, let's call it decile, you would say see you in a decile instead of 2.43 hours.

As a side effect, 2.43h is actually 2h and less than 30 minutes and not 2h and 43 minutes (unintuitive), while 0.41 decile would probably be 41 centile, so conversion would be easier.

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