Stopwatch resets after 1193 hours

6619804 over 1 year ago

I just found that the Instinct's stopwatch resets after 1193 hours 2 minutes and 48 seconds.
I suppose that this information is completely useless, but I'm sorry, I had to tell it to somebody, when I discovered it at last .
And that number is quite interesting. Why this number?

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trux over 1 year ago +3

6619804 said:
Why this number?

Because 1193 hours + 2 minutes + 47s + 295 ms is equal to 4294967295 ms which is 2³²-1, or 11111111111111111111111111111111 in binary transcription. In other words…

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0 trux over 1 year ago

6619804 said:
Why this number?

Because 1193 hours + 2 minutes + 47s + 295 ms is equal to 4294967295 ms which is 2³²-1, or 11111111111111111111111111111111 in binary transcription. In other words, it is the maximal value of an unsigned 32 bit integer variable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4,294,967,295