[111839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Happy 1234567890 everyone!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Feb 13 20:03:34 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:03:20 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Ravi Pina <ravi@cow.org> said:
> Yes... that is more like the y2k38 problem on 03:14:07 UTC
> 2038-01-19...
Oddly enough, the end of the current Unix epoch is a prime. Not only
that, it is a Mersenne prime, 2^31 - 1. Even more, it is the largest
known Mersenne prime where its Mersenne number (31) is also a Mersenne
prime (2^5 - 1).
You can always count on numerology. This means something!
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
