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Fictional Clock Real World Scale

Scale an elapsed fictional duration by an explicit positive real-time conversion factor.

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Description

Scale nonnegative fictional elapsed time to a supplied real-world unit basis.

Writing records can represent speakers, scenes, aliases, rhyme labels and revision spans. These representations preserve selected conventions: a character count needs an indexing unit, an alias can be active over an inclusive period, and a stage-direction wrapper is a string pattern rather than a grammar. Mechanical labels do not evaluate literary quality or establish authorship.

Scale nonnegative fictional elapsed time to a supplied real-world unit basis.

When to use this tool

Use Fictional Clock Real World Scale when you already have fictionalElapsed, realUnitsPerFictionalUnit and need to scale nonnegative fictional elapsed time to a supplied real-world unit basis.

How to use the tool and how it works

  1. Enter fictionalElapsed, realUnitsPerFictionalUnit. 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 realElapsed. Use the output convention below.

Require fictionalElapsed>=0 and realUnitsPerFictionalUnit positive/finite; multiply them.1

Input fieldMeaning and unitsAccepted input
fictionalElapsedFictional ElapsedRequired. Finite number; minimum 0.
realUnitsPerFictionalUnitReal Units Per Fictional UnitRequired. Finite number; strictly above 0.
Output fieldInterpretationReturned shape
realElapsedReal ElapsedRequired. Finite number.
json
{
  "input": {
    "fictionalElapsed": 12,
    "realUnitsPerFictionalUnit": 2
  },
  "output": {
    "realElapsed": 24
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

  • No actual time, clock, calendar, narrative chronology or physical time-dilation model is determined.
  • 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

Inspect the full passage, draft history and editorial style when interpreting the result. Use complete text or narrative analysis for meaning and structure; local markers, offsets and supplied attribution records only organize the stated information.

References

  1. Calculation and input contract: creative-writing/fictional-clock-real-world-scale — tool.io

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