Every two or three days, I make a pot of coffee and store most of it in a Thermos. To warm up a cup, it takes about ninety seconds in the microwave, but the turntable in mine makes exactly six revolutions per minute, and after completing a cook cycle, the oven beeps and the platter continues to spin for four seconds, so I hit "Cook Time" and "126" and "start" and soon my coffee is piping hot and the handle of my mug is facing me.
My oven does not have a button that cooks something for one minute and twenty-six seconds, and I don't expect GE or Sharp to include one on their next model, but there is something I would like: a "redial" button that I could hit to repeat the last cooking task requested. That's not too much to ask, is it?
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Most microwaves will interpret all 2-digit numbers as seconds, so "96" would be the same as 1:26, saving you one keystroke. It's not much, but it helps a little bit.
Similarly, on calculators without a "pi" key, just remember all of the odd little digits: 355/113 = 3.14159292... (vs. pi = 3.14159265...), so those 7 keystrokes (and repositioning your finger only 4 times) gives you an extra digit more of accuracy than the 7 keystrokes that "3.14159" would take, including the decimal point.
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