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Studio Task Station Time Share Tool

Calculate studio task station time share from explicit caller-supplied inputs.

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Description

Return selected station's time share and total task duration.

Studio-class budgets allocate supplied time, turns, places and materials. Reserved quantities and shared work affect the reporting denominator, and a negative remainder or undefined per-person amount is useful bookkeeping information. These arithmetic checks do not assess learning quality, accessibility or whether a real class can safely perform an activity.

Return selected station's time share and total task duration.

When to use this tool

Use Studio Task Station Time Share when checking the stated studio allocation, participation, capacity or time budget.

How to use the tool and how it works

  1. Enter stationLabels, taskDurations, selectedStation, availableTime. Follow any array-alignment requirements below. Use the units and conventions below.
  2. Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
  3. Read stationTime, share, totalTaskTime. Use the output convention below.

Return selected station's time share and total task duration. Require aligned station/duration arrays, nonnegative durations and positive availableTime; stationTime sums matching rows, share = stationTime/available, total sums all rows.1

Input fieldMeaning and unitsAccepted input
stationLabelsStation LabelsRequired. Array of text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192; maximum items 256.
taskDurationsTask DurationsRequired. Array of finite number; minimum 0; maximum items 256.
selectedStationSelected StationRequired. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192.
availableTimeAvailable TimeRequired. Finite number; strictly above 0.
Output fieldInterpretationReturned shape
stationTimeStation TimeRequired. Finite number.
shareSelected station duration/availableTime; may exceed one.Required. Finite number.
totalTaskTimeTotal Task TimeRequired. Finite number.
json
{
  "input": {
    "stationLabels": [
      "A",
      "B",
      "A"
    ],
    "taskDurations": [
      2,
      3,
      1
    ],
    "selectedStation": "A",
    "availableTime": 10
  },
  "output": {
    "stationTime": 3,
    "share": 0.3,
    "totalTaskTime": 6
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

  • Share can exceed one; overlap, actual station use and educational effectiveness are not inferred.
  • Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
  • Numeric calculations use binary floating point unless exact decimal-integer arithmetic is explicitly stated. No hidden measurement tolerance or decimal rounding is added; nonfinite or out-of-contract results are rejected. Numeric signed-zero results are exported as zero.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Review the actual class plan, learner needs, usable resources and supervision requirements before organizing an activity.

References

  1. Calculation and input contract: art-education/studio-task-station-time-share — tool.io

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