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xkcd #3228: Day Counter

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It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3228/

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[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Floating point errors are what eventually convinced God to make the universe the way it is. The initial plan was to have all properties be continuous, but that resulted in many floating point errors. That's when he said: fuck it, quantum states are discrete.

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