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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:56:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:40:48 -0500, BGB wrote:

> Practically, picoseconds are likely the smallest unit of time that 
> people could practically measure or hope to make much use of.

“10¯¹² seconds ought to be enough for anybody.”

The lessons of software backward-compatibility baggage teach us that we 
need to think a bit beyond present-day technological limitations.

> Planck units are so small as to be essentially useless for any
> practical measurement.

And as far as we know, that will always be true.