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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:40:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 04:33 this Monday (GMT):
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 21:49:02 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
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>> A better unit is, IMO, a second resolution (which at least is a basic
>> physical unit) and a separate integer for sub-seconds.
>
> 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.
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