Talk:Walter George (athlete)
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Times to 1/5 of a second etc
[edit]Someone saw fit to change all times recorded at 1/5 of a second or full second to tenth of a second, i.e., 4:14 2/5 becomes 4:14.4 and 4:27 becomes 4:27.0
The logic in rendering times in fifths and with no decimal for full numbers is that is the time that we have. Putting a decimal in place implies an accuracy to a tenth of a second which most certainly was not available for the era in question.
So when we have a race recorded as "4:29", rendering it to 4:29.0 implies an accuracy which was not then present.
If the member would care to supply a rationale here, please do so. Because a lot of the other little changes - metric equivalents etc - are appropriate, but I couldn't separate the reversions. Canada Jack 15:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
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