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From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: funny remote time/duration values
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:58:32 +0000
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On Monday,  7 Jan 2019 at 10:58, Robert Klein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when using values (time/duration) from a remote table I sometimes get
> funny values:
>
> #+name: teta
> | 4:50 |
>
> | 2:25 |
> #+TBLFM: @1$1=remote(teta,@1$1)

Note that x:y in Emacs calc (which is what org uses for the spreadsheet
elements of tables) is a ratio so 4:50 *is* the same as 2:25.

If you have times, you'll need to use different notation (@,',", I
believe).

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.14-1035-gfeb442