16.2 Numbers

The minutes property and its ilk are intended to help you convert to seconds. This is because date arithmetic uses seconds (Section 13.3 and Section 15.1).

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The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Example

set area to pi * (radius ^ 2)

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The number of seconds in a minute.

Example

(current date) + 30 * minutes -- half an hour from now

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The number of seconds in an hour.

Example

(current date) + 2 * hours -- two hours from now

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The number of seconds in a day.

Example

(current date) + 2 * days -- two days from now

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The number of seconds in a week.

Example

(current date) + 2 * weeks -- two weeks from now