[plug] billion (was Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfast function.)

[Nathan Alberti]

Just incase anyone has forgotten...

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Nathan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Francis" <locust at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] billion (was Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfast
function.)


> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Clinton Butler wrote:
> > Epoch is measured in the American ways.. and that's that! Our standard
for
> > Billion is 10^12 (Million Million)
>
> Can you supply a reference for that? Dictionary definitions appear to be
> in dispute.
>
> > just.. stop dribbling about this
> > worthless crap!
> > It is getting rather annoying
>
> I object to this.
>
> So far, this debate's put far less crap in my mailbox than your failure
> to Read The Fucking Manual (tm)
>
> --
> Andrew Francis
> locust at iinet.net.au
>
>
>