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Return the value of this time interval as a real number of seconds. Note that the return value may be negative and may have a fractional part (representing the nanosecond field of this object). Also note that the conversion from the internal representation to a `double` may _lose_ precision.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_timeinterval.h>`

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double
totalSecondsAsDouble() const;
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