After just getting over all last week being subjected to people on the news (or newsreaders themselves) talking about PIN Numbers (Personal Identity Number Numbers..?) today as I drive along I see three vans (different companies) advertising their services "24/7/365"...
24/7: All day, every day of the week. Sounds good enough to me. But /365? Ignoring the fact that it's 365.25[1] days in a year, if we're so worried that the "24/7" doesn't indicate clearly enough that all those weeks in the year are equally covered, then we need to use something like "24/7/52+[2]" instead. Either that or just use "24/365+". That says to me "We don't care about what day of the week it is, we just do every day there is in a year!" And potential more economical when it comes to sign-writing.
But hang on! They're so bothered about making sure that every week in a year is also covered, obviously because we are so pessimistic as to imagine it's this week only that's guaranteed... But they're still holding back on us... because they're not telling us how many years the 24/365+ (or the other version that's roughly equivalent/blatantly incorrect) applies to.... Unless they mean seven years (24/7/3675 reall means 24/365/7, and taking Feb 29th off to get proposed to by their girlfriends, or something). But I feel like demanding at least a decade of guaranteed always on-call service. I'm not going to use you part timers!
Have I made my point?
Good, now please ignore it.
[1] And further ignoring that even that isn't right, just the Julian year (and even then ignores leap centuries!), and that there's sidereal years, tropical years, etc, etc... Shall we just default to "365+" as a notation to cater for (most) measures of days in a year?
[2] 52+(1.25/7), or similar fraction of the appropriate remainder...
[X] Two minor errors left in as sacrifices to the Pedant's Curse. Others may still exist. HTH, HAND.
((In other news, I saw someone up a roof, as well, this morning Not quite a point so interesting as to generate its own thread, but I just thought I'd mention it while I'm here. At least as a balm to those who might have regretted reading my above rant.))