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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:57:52 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:56:56 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:36:07 -0500, BGB wrote:
>>>> On 4/14/2025 12:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 04:33 this Monday
>>>>> (GMT):
>>>>>> I worked out that an integer of a little over 200 bits is sufficient
>>>>>> to represent the age of the known Universe in units of the Planck
>>>>>> interval (5.39e-44 seconds). Therefore, rounding to something more
>>>>>> even, 256 bits should be more than enough to measure any physically
>>>>>> conceivable time down to that resolution.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problem then becomes storing that size.
>>>> 
>>>> More practical is storing the time in microseconds.
>>>
>>> Relative to what epoch?
>>>
>>> I figured that it would be hard to find an epoch less arbitrary than
>>> the Big Bang ...
>> 
>> Why??
>> 
>> That would not be practical or useful.  The timing of the Big Bang is
>> not known with great precision ...
>
> Neither is that of some fictional religious entity.
>
> So we pick some value close to where we think it is. And then discover in 
> the future that it was some few million years before or after that point. 
> No biggie.

You have again snipped relevant context from my previous post.  Worse,
you have not indicated that you snipped it.  (A common convention is to
insert a line like "[...]" or "[snip]" in place of the snipped text.)
Stop doing that.

Your suggestion is silly, it is impractical for reasons you refuse to
acknowledge, and I won't waste any more time discussing it with you.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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