René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > ... A more > fine-grained report of the preparation steps would help, but seeing > "stalled" would just scare me. True. > The convenience of having one less display_progress() call is only a > slight advantage. True, too. > "2/3 (33%)" means something else to me than to you by default. So a > solution could be to state the model explicitly. I.e. "2/3 (66%) done" > or "working on 2/3 (66%)", but the percentage doesn't quite fit in the > latter case. Thoughts? I still see "2/3 done" is how we should look at it, but either way, that's a good way to view at the problem. Thanks. [Unrelated Tangent] > ... Recently I learned that in Arabic a person's age is given > using the count-iterations model. I.e. on the day of your birth > your age is one. East Asign age reckoning is shared among EA countries and works the same way, not just Arabic.
