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Originally Posted by cjp
Funny! In the US, " is minutes. But you hightlighted the point that I should be more aware that this forum is international, thus to avoid confusion, it would have been more appropriate just to write out "minutes."
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In what notation? Using sexagesimal notation minutes is notated with ' and seconds with ''. From Wikipedia:
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Modern time separates each position by a colon or point. For example, the time might be 10:25:59 (10 hours 25 minutes 59 seconds). Angles use similar notation. For example, an angle might be 10°25'59" (10 degrees 25 minutes 59 seconds). In both cases, only minutes and seconds use sexagesimal notation — angular degrees can be larger than 59 (one rotation around a circle is 360°, two rotations are 720°, etc.), and both time and angles use decimal fractions of a second.
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I'm in the US and have always seen 1 tick to notate minutes. As said about these notations are not often used... most common usage is in specifying geographical locations.
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