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Why is this milestone important?

• leggomylibro 9y ago
  Lots of 0s in a row.
• repsilat 9y ago
  "A number" that a lot of people use and recognise as "one, four, then a lot of other digits" will become noticeably different. Do not adjust your set.
• mulmen 9y ago
  Because life is short.
• flukus 9y ago
  Because many of us won't make it to 2 billion.
  • aaron695 9y ago
    15 years time?
    • gattilorenz 9y ago
      Surely you don't expect everyone living now to be still alive in 15 years? ;) But yeah, it might just indicate that parent got the ballpark estimate wrong... Unix time is not the most human-friendly format.
      • adrianN 9y ago
        A simple mnemonic is that pi * 10 ^ 7 seconds is a year (~0.5% error) and e * 10 ^ 6 seconds is a month.
        • scottmf 9y ago
          Simple indeed.
  • pjc50 9y ago
    I'm hoping to use fixing the 2^31 bugs as my retirement plan.