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minus-squareAda@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69arrow-down1·2 months agoHeadline: Exactly 49 days First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 months ago2^32 milliseconds to be exact
minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoAh so it’s an overflow bug
minus-squaresik0fewl@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIt would have been more correct to say exactly 50 days.
Headline: Exactly 49 days
First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change
2^32 milliseconds to be exact
Ah so it’s an overflow bug
(2^32 ) - 1
It would have been more correct to say exactly 50 days.