Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:31:29 -0700 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <200110270231.TAA16602@windsor.research.att.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110261046280.10928-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200110261707.f9QH7F437553@apollo.backplane.com> <3BDA19B1.F26651DC@mindspring.com>
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>I have this vision of an SF novel, where human civilization >is destroyed 29 billion years from now because of 64 bit >seconds, and the fact that all computer programming is done >by machines instead of by humans... Why would human civilization be destroyed 263471208677 years before a 64-bit signed field would overflow? Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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