>>107418656Alright, let me explain this properly, because people keep getting it wrong.
Everybody thinks 2 minutes is 120 seconds, but that’s because they don’t know how to use the conversion table. Time works just like the metric system. You’ve got hours, minutes, seconds, just like kilometers, meters, centimeters. It’s all steps in a table.
When you move one step down in a conversion table, you multiply by 10. That’s how the metric system works. So when you go from minutes to seconds, that’s one step down. Which means 1 minute is 10 seconds. Simple.
But here’s the thing: the table for time actually has two levels under minutes before you hit seconds. So instead of multiplying by 10 once, you multiply by 10 twice. That’s where the 100 comes from.
So if you’re converting minutes to seconds, the rule is: add two zeros. Multiply by 100.
So:
1 minute = 100 seconds.
Therefore, 2 minutes = 200 seconds.
But in practice, we only keep the base value when we talk about normal time, so instead of saying 200, we say 100. Because that’s the clean, standard value in the conversion table.
That’s why two minutes equals one hundred seconds. It’s not complicated, it’s just people not understanding the conversion chart.”
