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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

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