Re: CLOCKTABLE multiply time expended by hourly rate?

[Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com>]

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Or if you want to preserve your rounding until the last point in your
calculations:

| Test 1 |   |   | 1:15 |  62.50 |  76 |
| Test 2 |   |   | 2:48 | 140.00 | 169 |
#+TBLFM: $5=$4*(50/60.0);Df2::$6=$4+1

Since 50/60 is 0.8333... by rounding it prematurely you lose some of the
precision in your billing.
Column 6 is just there to confirm for me what org does when you add or
multiply times. It counts the minutes as units and properly adjusts the
hours to be 60*# of hours.

So you just have to account for that when billing

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:37, Giovanni Ridolfi
<giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>wrote:

> Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
>
> > That's certainly thinking outside the box, but I don't think it
> > works.
>
> Actually, Daniel you don't have to *think*, you've to demonstrate
> that it works or that it doesn't /tertium non datur/.
>
> > In your example, 1:09 represents 1/9th in calc's fraction mode,
> > not 1+9/60 which it would have to in order to compute with it.
> Not with GNU/Emacs 23.3 calc.
>
> If you bill 50 per 1 hour, you bill
>
> (/ 50 60.0 ) is 0.83 per minute.
>
> If you bill 1 hour + 9 minutes it is 69 minutes
>
> (* 0.83 69) 57.269999999999996  = 57.27
>
> isn't it ?
>
> And the fifth column in my table (see below) does compute 57.27 or not?
>
>   You may say: "Ah but this is only one example, you've been lucky!"
>
>  I reply, what about the second line?
>
> (* (+ 120 48) 0.83) = 139.44
>
> Calc is *really* smart, isn't it?
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > At Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:07:28 +0200,
> > Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
> >>
> >> Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to use orgmode to bill for time.  My idea is to add a
> column
> >> > that multiplies the elapsed time column by an hourly rate.
> >>
> >> what about using a minute rate?
> >>
> >> (/ 50 60.0) 0.83 so:
> >>
> >> | Argo Status Hearing <2011-06-28 Tue 09:00> |   |   | 1:09 |  57.27 |
> >> | Letter of Discovery Deficiencies           |   |   | 2:48 | 139.44 |
> >> #+TBLFM: $5=$4*0.83;Df2
> >>
> >>
>
>

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