Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Fre, 2014-10-03 at 07:23 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
> > dc -e "1 k 2 32 ^ 1000 / 86400 / p"
> > 49.7
> >
> > (That was the number I remembered from stories about a ancient Windows
> > lockup.)
> 
> Well yes, I used bc which discards the remainder on integer divides

Use `bc -l`;-)
----  snip  ----
2^32 / 1000 / 86400 
49.71026962962962962962
----  snip  ----

	Bernd
-- 
"I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving
on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main
issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong."
    - Linus Torvalds

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