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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:46:22 -0700
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On 4/14/2025 3:56 PM, 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; the epoch would be "what we
> guessed the time of the Big Bang to be when we standardized this".

Humm... Is the "Big Bang' nothing more than a hyper large and rather 
local explosion?

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