They're just using French Revolutionary decimal time.
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8:99, love it. I'm going to start to use it.
Or the famous saying "It's 11:95"
8:99 = 9:39
Ah yes, the well known i5.90689059561
Edit: i5.90689059560851852932405837343720668462464580071706167251050905035703300440298377837242021827745839719063803418530941917054164942532445171041739
Is this what over-clocking is?
OK, I am dumb. Can you explain what that is?
I'm not OP, but my guess is they're referring to the Intel math bug that some i5's had. I'm struggling to track it down, but it's basically an issue with doing long division where the floating point math would produce a very wrong result.
You can see more here at least for the bug/issue that existed in the 90's here
Iโm not actually, just that a binary integer that overflows at 60 couldnโt exist, hence the 5.907 whatever bit length
oh, that's actually clever. And I'm saying that as a software engineer. I missed that possibility :)
I should have phrased it differently, like โAh yes, the well known 5.9068905956 bit integer.โ But thanks
Blud be living in 1795 France.
Took me much longer than I'm willing to admit
can you explain?
I'm writing this comment at 9 pm. What time was it a minute ago?
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I read the title in Joel's voice