YEARS2MINUTES

Purpose:

Converts years to minutes.

Syntax:

YEARS2MINUTES(years)

years

-

A scalar or series, the years values.

Returns:

A series or array of minute values.

Example:

years2minutes(3)

 

Returns 15768000, the number of minutes in three years.

Example:

minutes2years(years2minutes(3)))

 

Returns 3.0 years showing MINUTES2YEARS and YEARS2MINUTES are inverse functions

Example:

W1: 0..0.2..1

W2: years2minutes(w1)

W3: minutes2years(w2)

 

W1 contains the years series: {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0}.

W2 contains the minutes series {0, 105120, 210240, 315360, 420480, 525600}.

W3 recovers the original years series.

Remarks:

YEARS2MINUTES converts a year value or series to minutes.

 

YEARS2MINUTES assumes that a leap year can occur four years after the first full year.

 

See MINUTES2YEARS to convert a minutes value or series to years.

See Also:

MINUTES2YEARS

YEARS2DAYS

YEARS2HOURS

YEARS2SECONDS