HOURS2YEARS

Purpose:

Converts hours to years.

Syntax:

HOURS2YEARS(hours)

hours

-

A scalar or series, the hours values.

Returns:

A series or array of year values.

Example:

hours2years(3)

 

Returns 0.000342, the number of years in 3 hours.

Example:

years2hours(hours2years(3))

 

Returns 3.0 hours showing YEARS2HOURS and HOURS2YEARS are inverse functions.

Example:

W1: 0..1752..8760

W2: hours2years(w1)

W3: years2hours(w2)

 

W1 contains the hours series {0, 1752, 3504, 5256, 7008, 8760}.

W2 contains the years series {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0}.

W3 recovers the original hours series.

Remarks:

HOURS2YEARS converts an hour value or series to years.

 

HOURS2YEARS assumes that a leap year can occur four years after the first full year.

 

See YEARS2HOURS to convert years to hours.

See Also:

HOURS2DAYS

HOURS2MINUTES

HOURS2SECONDS

YEARS2HOURS