POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Linear dates and times : Re: Linear dates and times Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:25:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Linear dates and times  
From: Paul Fuller
Date: 10 Aug 2009 21:11:51
Message: <4a80c557$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> 
> It's a little cheating, though, switching digit groupings at the tens, 
> and forgetting midnight allows 0 to be included before 1...what about 
> 00:01:02.0304050607 08-09-10?  (It's a short celebration)
> 
> :P
> 

Well that just gets silly.  The digits of Pi (and e and Sqrt(2) etc) to 
any desired precision appear as decimals somewhere after each and every 
second.  Unless time is quantum I guess ?

What was that expression ... "Turtles all the way down".


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