> Where did you get this 4000 years figure anyway? 33 bits would just Oh, having become hopelessly confused by the original posting, I came up with some additional errors (the 16x10^18 is just as wrong, too; 584,942,417,355 is more like it...) Comes of posting to debian lists in my sleep :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .