From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-11-24T22:14:26+09:00
Subject: Re: 64bit timestamp library

Hi!

* Charles Hixson; 2003-11-23, 23:49 UTC:
> Given that:              
> 1 Year =     365.25    days    365    days/year
> 1 Day =    24    hours    8,766    hours/year
> 1 Hour =    60    minutes    525,960    minutes/year
> 1 Minute =     60    seconds    31,557,600    seconds/year
> 1 Second =    1000    miliseconds    31,557,600,000    ms/year
> 1 ms =    10    .1 ms    315,576,000,000    .1 ms/year
> 
> 2 ^ 63 =     9,223,372,036,854,780,000    =>    29,227,102    years @ .1 ms

Or, as w physicist would pput it:

2**63 * 0.1 ms = 8 * 10**18 * 0.1 ms = 8 * 10**17 ms
1 yr = PI * 10**7 s = PI * 10**10 ms (1)
PI = 22/7 (2)

8 * 10**17 ms = 8/PI * 10**(17-10) a = 56/22 * 10**7 a = 3 * 10**7 a

(1) Alien but quite precise :->
(2) Any Forth programmers among us?

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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