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

[Adam Davin]

I believe there is ... well a jpg at least .. I have it floating around
somewhere. I'll see if I can stick it up somewhere if anyones interested...

Adam

ps sorry about the delayed post but I've been trying to catch up on other
things... and plug mail just keeps on coming

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pickett [mailto:plug at broometime.com]
> Sent: Monday, 3, September 2001 1:00 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] billion (was Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfast
> function.)
>
>
> hehe
>
> Is there a RTFM howTo ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Francis [mailto:locust at iinet.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 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
>
>
>