It isn't really spelled out in the rules of how to figure out the complete running time of a tv series.

All the rules states in regards to running time is to round it to the nearest minute.

So which way is the best way to figure that out?

1. Round each episodes running time and then add them up to get the complete running time.

2. Add up the running times of each episode, minutes & seconds separately, and then round the total to the nearest minute.

#1 is the easiest, but can result in an accurate running time.
#2 seems the best way to do it as it is likely to be the most accurate since rounding is done until the final step.

It was just something I was wondering about and it got me to thinking if there are any profiles in the database done with method #1.

#2 for me to

I vote #2 as well.

Quoting Berak:

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#2 is the only way to go IMO....

Agree, it's the only way to get a correct result.

#2 for the following reason.  If each individual episode in a 24-episode set gets rounded up (which could happen) and you go by the rounded totals, you COULD be potentially around 12 minutes off the "actual" combined running time. (I'm figuring roughly 30 seconds per episode times 24 episodes.)  If you don't round until the end, you're much more likely to be correct.

Quoting kdh1949:

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#2 for the following reason.  If each individual episode in a 24-episode set gets rounded up (which could happen) and you go by the rounded totals, you COULD be potentially around 12 minutes off the "actual" combined running time. (I'm figuring roughly 30 seconds per episode times 24 episodes.)  If you don't round until the end, you're much more likely to be correct.

Each 'hour' episode without commercials is around 47 min (plus..)  x 24 episode = 1128 ..