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mbauman on July 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point

Hunh? January 1, 1970 + 9.007199254740992e15 nanoseconds gets you all the way to... tax day[1].

Microseconds gets you to the year 2255; milliseconds to heat death.

1. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=January+1%2C+1970+%2B+...

pavon on July 14, 2020 [–]

Qwibble: Microseconds gets you to the year 2540 with double precision, because the implied 1-bit means you effectively have 54-bit mantissa.

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