Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:14:23 -0700 | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Subject | Re: signed int for interrupts?? |
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Marty Leisner writes: > Now I'm confused...2**31 is a huge number.
2^31 is about 2 * 10^9.
> If you have interrupts at 1 Megahertz, (10**6), you still have a big > enough number for 10*25 seconds of interrupts.
10^6 is about 2^20. 10^25 is about 2^83.
> There are about 10*5 seconds in a day...so we can encode years and years > and years (how long has your linux system been running).
2^31 / 86400 is about 25000. 2^31 seconds is a little over 68 years.
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