Person-time, what unit is it?

Refers to the total number of people in a certain activity within a unit time.

Person-time is a compound quantifier, a compound unit that measures the number of people and times. Refers to the total number of people, including recurring people, in a certain activity (such as visiting, reception) within a unit time.

For example:

The number of visitors to a certain museum in one day reaches 3,000, which means that including repeat visitors, there are 3,000 people, and some of them may have visited twice. times or more.

In 2014, the total number of tourists nationwide reached 3.26 billion.

Extended information

The difference between person-times and number of people:

1. Person-times include repeated people; number of people is the total number of people, and the same person appears repeatedly of people counts as one person.

For example: In one day, 500 people visited the museum, but 100 of the 500 people visited the museum twice, then the total number of people who visited the museum in that day was Seven hundred people; on this day, the total number of people visiting the museum was five hundred.

2. Person-time, 10,000 person-time, 100 million person-time, etc. are themselves units of measurement, and the unit of number of people is person.

3. Person-time also means among human beings.