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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

In minutes

Could you paraphrase or explain to me the underlined part in the following sentence?
Although I can guess what the entire sentence roughly means, but I can't get what "in minutes" exactly means here.
Thank you.

This code will evaluate the chart period in minutes, and return a string if the chart period matches several common chart periods.
  

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My initial reading was that "in minutes" means in a short period of time -- one that can be measured in minutes rather than, say, hours or days. Does this make sense in the context? Another possiblitity may be that the granularity of the chart or the analysis is minute-by-minute.

— GPY

  • My initial reading was that "in minutes" means in a short period of time -- one that can be measured in minutes rather than, say, hours or days.
  • Does this make sense in the context?
  • Another possiblitity may be that the granularity of the chart or the analysis is minute-by-minute.
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My initial reading was that "in minutes" means in a short period of time -- one that can be measured in minutes rather than, say, hours or days. Does this make sense in the context? Another possiblitity may be that the granularity of the chart or the analysis is minute-by-minute.
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Thank you very much for your help, GPY. By the way, I understand your second suggestion as it means that the chart is evaluated every minute. Could you tell me whether I got it right?
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lucas21cThis code will evaluate the chart period in minutes, and return a string if the chart period matches several common chart periods.
It is ambiguous and badly written.

1) Assume that the graph axis is time, and the program will analyze chunks of time in 60-second intervals to search for a pattern.
2) The program will take a few minutes to gi
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lucas21cThank you very much for your help, GPY. By the way, I understand your second suggestion as it means that the chart is evaluated every minute. Could you tell me whether I got it right?
I meant more or less what AS described in (1). It is hard to know exactly how (or whether) this interpretation makes sense without knowing more about the nature of the ch
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lucas21cchart period
What do you mean by the "chart period" in your sentence? Does it mean some time intervals which are charted? Does it have something to do with a computer analysis of stock charts?

I've consulted Dictionary.com and found twenty definitions of "period" under the noun entry.
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