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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 17:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 03:01 this Friday (GMT):
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0100, bart wrote:
>
>> Here, tell me at a glance the magnitude of
>> this number:
>> 
>>      10000000000
>
>     #define THOUSAND 1000
>     #define MILLION (THOUSAND * THOUSAND)
>     #define BILLION (THOUSAND * MILLION)
>
>     uint64 num = 10 * BILLION;
>
> Much easier to figure out, don’t you think?


I used to do a bit of code for a codebase that did that with SECONDS and
MINUTES since (almost) every "time" variable was in milliseconds, and it
was very nice. That is just my subjective opinion, though. :P

it was more like
#define SECONDS *10
#define MINUTES SECONDS*60
#define HOURS MINUTES*60

, though. Probably would be more notably annoying to debug in weird
cases if the whole language/codebase wasnt borked spagetti :D
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