What does "eight-point-three days" mean.

[Caroline_3]

I found this phrase "eight-point-three days" in the book and I don't know what does it mean. Should I understand it as "few days"? I'd appreciate help

 

[MikeNewYork]

I found this phrase "eight-point-three days" in the book and I don't know what does it mean. Should I understand it as "few days"? I'd appreciate help

All I can determine is it means 8.3 days, which is odd.

 

[Barb_D]

All I can determine is it means 8.3 days, which is odd.

Not if you're talking about averages.
Average number of days from order to delivery, average number of days of a typical vacation, etc.

 

[Grumpy]

Perhaps Caroline is asking about its literal meaning, which is "a total of eight days and three tenths of a day".

 

[bhaisahab]

What is the context? What sort of book is it?

 

[Caroline_3]

Well, I should have put the whole sentence here in the first place, but I forgot. Here it is:

"So, anyway, it would't be fair to start something with Josh when it would just crash and burn in approximately eight-point-three days or four dates, whitchever came first"

Should I understand it as not whole nine days? Something like "by the end of ninth day"?

 

[bhaisahab]

Well, I should have put the whole sentence here in the first place, but I forgot. Here it is:

"So, anyway, it would't be fair to start something with Josh when it would just crash and burn in approximately eight-point-three days or four dates, whitchever came first"

Should I understand it as not whole nine days? Something like "by the end of ninth day"?

It just means a relatively short time.

 

[Caroline_3]

Thank You for all the replies and clearing this up for me

 

[MikeNewYork]

Well, I should have put the whole sentence here in the first place, but I forgot. Here it is:

"So, anyway, it would't be fair to start something with Josh when it would just crash and burn in approximately eight-point-three days or four dates, whitchever came first"

Should I understand it as not whole nine days? Something like "by the end of ninth day"?

Yes, the context is helpful. It appears to me that she just made up "8.3 days" to be facetious.

 

[BobK]

It just means a relatively short time.

:up: ... and specifying a short time in very precise terms, for comic effect.

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[Tdol]

:up: ... and specifying a short time in very precise terms, for comic effect.

Though to little effect.

 

[BobK]

;-) Quite so; but MrsK and my daughter would disagree.

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