Re: Boulder Pledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:35:27PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> > 497days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds * 100 ticks per second =
> > 4294944000
>
> That looks phony... you have four 10 factors on the left side but only
> three zeroes at the end of your result.
>
> And besides that... why are you multiplying by 100 Hz?
Because that is what linux on x86 counds uptime in. 0.01s ticks. That
is why there is a 497 day uptime limit. I may have missed a 0 while
pasting.
Oh, I should have put 497.1 days, since that is what I was using. The
real limit is
497.102696180 days. or 497 days 2 hours 27 minutes 52.95 seconds.
Len Sorensen
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