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I don't know if it counts as "extra", but someone once said "as neglected as the nine button on the microwave", which struck me as odd since whenever something needs to be heated for a minute and a half, I always enter "90" instead of "1:30" since it's two buttons to press instead of three.

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I always hit one button multiple times, so I'd hit 99. Infinitesimally faster than hitting two buttons once.

In that case I think 88 would be closer to 1:30 - it's only two seconds off rather than nine seconds off. But it might be better to be nine seconds overcooked than two seconds undercooked.

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