I probably did something wrong. With my hands, I mistype frequently and must have done so this time
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:08 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?] Richard, How did you get that number of years? My calculator (KCalc, on linux) gave me "only": 31.68808781402895023530941198686150528374 years. (1e9/60, /60, /24, 365.25) Did I do something wrong? Shimon On 27 Apr 2006 at 8:54, Schuh, Richard wrote: > Wow. 32.48862897985707 years with one company. That is really > something. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jones > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:26 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: [Fwd: A billion, anyone?] > > FYI..... > > A billion seconds...wow.... > > DJ > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: A billion, anyone? > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:57:10 +0100 > From: Mike Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Rexx Language Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm celebrating a billion seconds as an employee of IBM today, so > I > thought I'd share a couple of Rexx snippets: one for calculating the > date > and time a billion seconds ago, and another for calculating a > billion > seconds from the start of a given day. > > These require 'modern' date() and time() functions. > > mfc > > - - - - - > > /* billion-ago -- display the date and time a billion seconds ago. > */ > /* (Excluding leap-seconds.) mfc > */ > > numeric digits 16 > secsperday=24*60*60 > > parse value date('b') time('s') with days secs > total=days*secsperday+secs > > then=total-1E+9 > thendays=then%secsperday > thensecs=then//secsperday > > date=date('n', thendays, 'b') > time=time('n', thensecs, 's') > > say 'A billion seconds ago was:' date time > > - - - - - > > /* billion-from -- calculate a billion seconds from a date. > */ > /* (Excluding leap-seconds.) mfc > */ > > say 'Enter start date (yyyymmdd):' > pull start > > base=date('b', start, 's') > plus=base+11574 > new=date('n', plus, 'b') > > say 'A billion seconds from' start 'is:' new '(+ 1:46:40)'
