From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T15:18:13+09:00
Subject: Re: how many seconds old am i?

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Davis wrote:
>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 18:26 , Alex Stahl wrote:
>>
>>> puts 86000*365*age.to_i
>>
>> There are 86400 seconds in a day, and a fractional number of days in a
>> year (365.242199). You'd be off by more than 2 months for someone my
>> age.
>
> Are you... 240 years old?
>
> (0.25 days * 240 years = 2 months)

You forgot to account for the lack of 400 seconds  (6.666... minutes!) a day. ;)

-- 
Phillip Gawlowski

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I've moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I've played and passed through,
Who'll remember my song or my face.